Picasso - Bacon
What It Feels Like to Be Human
$126.88
- Hardcover
200 pages
- Release Date
13 October 2026
Summary
In this richly illustrated volume, Francis Bacon and Pablo Picasso emerge as the defining forces behind the modern image of the human figure. By placing the work of Bacon and Picasso in sustained visual and conceptual conversation, this publication examines one of the most consequential artistic relationships of the 20th century.
Over five decades shaped by political upheaval, war, and cultural rupture, both artists pursued an uncompromising interrogation of what it means to be human—…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783791392158 |
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| ISBN-10: | 3791392158 |
| Author: | Michael Peppiatt, Ralph Gleis |
| Publisher: | Prestel |
| Imprint: | Prestel |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 13 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 300mm |
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Michael Peppiatt
MICHAEL PEPPIATT is a renowned British curator and historian of twentieth-century art. He maintained a close friendship with Francis Bacon for thirty years, having met him as a student at Cambridge in 1963. In recent decades, Peppiatt has written an authoritative biography of the painter and curated numerous major exhibitions, including Francis Bacon: Man and Beast at the Royal Academy in 2022 and Bacon – Giacometti at the Fondation Beyeler in 2018.
RALPH GLEIS is Director General of The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna, Austria.
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