Michael Peppiatt

Renowned British curator and historian of twentieth-century art Michael Peppiatt 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.