BOOK LAUNCH | 'Francis Bacon in Your Blood: A Memoir' by Michael Peppiatt | Thursday, 3 November, 6.30-8pm

BOOK LAUNCH | 'Francis Bacon in Your Blood: A Memoir' by Michael Peppiatt | Thursday, 3 November, 6.30-8pm | London: Ben Brown Fine Arts, London; 2016.11.02 04:41 涝仿

Ben Brown Fine Arts invites to the book launch for the paperback edition of 'Francis Bacon in Your Blood: A Memoir'. This event will take place at the London gallery (12 Brook's Mews) on Thursday, 3 November 2016, 6.30-8pm. Michael Peppiatt will be in attendance to sign books.  <table width="600" id="x_mailing-content-table" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td class="x_mailing-vspace" id="x_mailing-content" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 35px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 200;">Please RSVP to <a style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 22px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" href="mailto:adam@michaelpeppiatt.com" target="_blank">adam@michaelpeppiatt.com</a></td></tr><tr><td class="x_mailing-full-img-container x_mailing-vspace" id="x_mailing-main-image-container" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 35px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 200;"><table width="600" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="x_mailing-full-img" id="x_mailing-main-image" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 15px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 200;"><img style="border: 0px currentColor; display: block;" src="http://artlogicmailings.com/custom_images/600x/usr/images/newsletters/main_image/5745/9781408856307-2-copy.jpg"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td class="x_mailing-vspace" id="x_mailing-content" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 22px; padding-bottom: 35px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 200;">It is a story I have been wanting to write for a long time, telling it as it really was before that whole world that I shared with Francis vanishes... Michael Peppiatt met Francis Bacon in June 1963 in Soho's French House to request an interview for a student magazine he was editing. Bacon invited him to lunch, and over oysters and Chablis they began a friendship and a no-holds-barred conversation that would continue until Bacon's death thirty years later. Fascinated by the artist's brilliance and charisma, Peppiatt accompanied him on his nightly round of prodigious drinking from grand hotel to louche club and casino, seeing all aspects of Bacon's 'gilded gutter life' and meeting everybody around him, from Lucian Freud and Sonia Orwell to East End thugs; from predatory homosexuals to Andy Warhol and the Duke of Devonshire. He also frequently discussed painting with Bacon in his studio, where only the artist's closest friends were ever admitted. The Soho photographer, John Deakin, who introduced the young student to the famous artist, called Peppiatt 'Bacon's Boswell'. Despite the chaos Bacon created around him Peppiatt managed to record scores of their conversations ranging over every aspect of life and art, love and death, the revelatory and hilarious as well as the poignantly tragic. Gradually Bacon became a kind of father figure for Peppiatt, and the two men's lives grew closely intertwined. In this intimate and deliberately indiscreet account, Bacon is shown close-up, grand and petty, tender and treacherous by turn, and often quite unlike the myth that has grown up around him. This is a speaking portrait, a living likeness, of the defining artist of our times. 'Every page is fresh, immediate, and flashing with glimpses into Bacon's complicated psyche and Peppiatt's own conundrums' Booklist ‘The best art memoir published in years’ Spectator ‘This fine memoir is more insightful than gossipy, and as a subject Bacon is just about unbeatable’ New York Times ‘Bringing Bacon to life as never before. A tremendous read’ The Art Newspaper ‘A classic, not only of art writing, but of personal memoir’ Sunday Telegraph </td></tr></tbody></table>