Yves Peyre is an author and librarian, having worked as the Director of both the Jacques Doucet Literary Library and the Sainte-Genevieve Library. He is a published poet, and is known for his book In Appeal of Faces: drawings by Henri Michaux.
A riveting new monograph vividly reminds of just why he considered his exigent artistic mission to be the rendering of the brutality of fact . -- Camilla Acosta, Black Book Magazine; A new comprehensive monograph detailing Francis Bacon's artistic journey is now up for grabs. -- Keith Estiler, hypebeast; A monumental new book Francis Bacon, or The Measure of Excess for ACC Art Books, the French author Yves Peyre recalls long afternoons on the Rive Gauche in the company of the great British painter. -- The Quietus;