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Giacometti in Paris A Life
Michael Peppiatt
An intimate portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest sculptors from one of our greatest art historians.
Today the work of Alberto Giacometti is world famous and his sculptures sell for record-breaking prices, but from his early days as an unknown outsider to the end of a dramatic career, Giacometti lived in the same hovel of a studio in Paris.
Arriving from Switzerland in 1922, Giacometti was shaped not only by his relationships with remarkable artists and writers – from Picasso, Breton and Dalí to Sartre, Beauvoir and Beckett – but by the everyday life, prewar and postwar, of Paris itself.
17 August 2023
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Hunting the Falcon
Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Made Modern England John Guy & Julia Fox
A landmark history of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn’s marriage from the married partnership of John Guy and Julia Fox
King Henry VIII: the man whose passion – verging on obsession – for one woman changed the course of history. Anne Boleyn: the woman who risked everything for a crown – and lost.
Their story is one of the most remarkable in history: a long courtship followed by a shotgun wedding and then a coronation, ending just a fortnight short of three years later. Missing from most accounts is how the turbulent nature of Anne and Henry’s relationship is tied almost completely to the twists and turns of continental politics at one of the great turning points of British and European history.
With access to new archival documents, startling artefactual discoveries and years of meticulous research, John Guy and Julia Fox unearth the truth of these two extraordinary lives and their tumultuous times. Hunting the Falcon is both a major new history and a startling portrait of love, lust, politics and power.
John Guy is a historian, author and broadcaster. The author of 16 books, he is a regular guest on multiple BBC radio shows and a BBC documentary presenter. Julia Fox is a teacher and author. She is the author of two books, Jane Boleyn and Sister Queens.
14 September 2023
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In Giacometti in Paris, Michael Peppiatt, who spent thirty years documenting the Paris art world, brilliantly charts the course of the artist’s life and work. From falling in and out with the Surrealists to years of artistic anguish, from devotion to his mother to intense friendships, tragic love affairs and a fraught marriage, this is an intimate portrait of an outstanding artist in exceptional times.
Michael Peppiatt has written for Le Monde, the New York Times, the Financial Times and Art International. His books include the definitive Francis Bacon biography, Anatomy of an Enigma, as well as the memoir Francis Bacon in Your Blood. He has curated numerous exhibitions, most recently ‘Francis Bacon: Man and Beast’ at the Royal Academy of Arts.
