"Artist Francis Bacon is known for his hell-raising antics in London, but the Dublin-born painter also had a soft spot for Paris. Following his hit exhibition at the Grand Palais in 1971 he took a a small studio apartment in the French capital. During this time Michael Peppiatt, the UK art historian who wrote Francis Bacon in Your Blood (2015), was his guide to the French capital, helping him navigate the City of Lights."
"The sign can be found in courtyard of the studio-cum-apartment near the Place des Vosges where Bacon lived and worked for 13 years from 1974. "Bacon frequently came to Paris for two to three weeks at a time. He liked the lifestyle, working in the morning, then going round all the best restaurants and clubs afterwards. It was a very full existence," Peppiatt tells The Art Newspaper."
""He was in my little flat in the Marais in the early 1970s which he liked. He came round one evening and asked if I could find a place for him," Peppiatt continues. "He wanted a flat like mine and we found the studio near the Place des Vosges where he lived and painted in the same room." "For good or for ill he had a deep effect on my development as a person.""
Francis Bacon maintained a long-term Paris connection, taking a small studio apartment after his 1971 Grand Palais exhibition and living and working near Place des Vosges for 13 years from 1974. He frequented Paris for two- to three-week visits, working mornings and spending evenings in top restaurants and clubs. Michael Peppiatt, who guided Bacon around the city and helped find the Marais-to-Place des Vosges flat, recalls Bacon’s fondness for the lifestyle. Peppiatt reports that Bacon’s personality profoundly affected him personally, describing Bacon as generous, fatherly at times, and influential on his own development.
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