American
Eric Karpeles is an American painter and writer. He trained as an artist and has worked as a painter and as a writer on art and literature. His best-known book is Paintings in Proust (2008), an illustrated guide that reproduces the works of art named in In Search of Lost Time and sets each beside the passage that cites it. He also wrote Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art and Life of José Fernández? No. His biography of the Polish painter Józef Czapski is titled Almost Nothing: The Twentieth-Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski (2018). Earlier he wrote Paul Cadmus: The Male Nude (2002). He has lived in France and the United States. His books connect painting and literature through close attention to individual pictures and the people who made them.