Lynn Barber

‘My attachment to Giacometti grew into the bedrock of my existence’

Michael Peppiatt has had a lifelong obsession with the Swiss sculptor – and the result is this wonderful biography

Alberto Giacometti in his Paris studio in 1950. [Archivio Cameraphoto/Getty] 
issue 16 September 2023

Michael Peppiatt is an octogenarian English art historian, based in London and Paris, who has met many of the artists he writes about. But, sadly, he never met Alberto Giacometti. He was working as a translator when, in 1966, he applied for a junior editor’s job at Réalités magazine in Paris and, much to his surprise, got it.

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