Giacometti's beanpole people became icons of 20th-century art and Michael Peppiatt's compelling portrait cuts to the core of the sculptor's “strange life and his stranger fame” . . . Appalling and fascinating. You'll never look at a Giacometti the same way

Laura Freeman, The Times: 12 Best Art Books of 2023

This is a marvellous book, an intimate and insightful account of the life and work of the uncompromising Giacometti – perverse in every sense and an artistic genius. It reads like a novel, indeed a novel by Samuel Beckett, who happened to be one of his friends and a man he much resembled

Paul Theroux

This book is not only a wonderful portrait of Giacometti, but also of many of his friends and associates. Peppiatt is at home in the whole Paris cultural scene and hops merrily from La Coupole to Les Deux Magots to Café Flore, picking up fascinating details along the way

Lynn Barber, Spectator

A beautiful book . . . I discovered so much more about that amazing man

Stanley Tucci

This book is an elegy for two missed things: an artist feted as a genius and the city he chose to live in . . . Giacometti in Paris is rich in anecdotage

Literary Review

An elegant, authoritative biography – Peppiatt knows his artistic onions, to be sure

Telegraph