John richardson picasso biography articles

American art historian (1924–2019)

For other people with the same name, see John Richardson.

Sir John Patrick Richardson, KBE, FBA (6 February 1924 – 12 March 2019) was a British art historian and biographer of Pablo Picasso.

Richardson also worked as an industrial designer and as a reviewer for The New Observer.

“The Minotaur Years” ends before World War II is over.

“The Minotaur Years” ends before World War II is over.

John Richardson's "A Life of Picasso" follows the artist during the decade after Hitler rose to power.

The final volume of biography by Richardson, who died before finishing it, is a thrilling survey of Picasso's surrealist era.

The first volume of John Richardson's new biography of Picasso, we now have the most complete account of the artist's early years we are likely to be given for.

Richardson's youthful curiosity bore fruit in his multivolume Life of Picasso, the greatest biography of an artist ever written.

In 1952, he moved to Provence, where he became friends with Picasso, Fernand Léger and Nicolas de Staël. In 1960, he moved to New York and organized a nine-gallery Picasso retrospective. Christie's then appointed him to open their U.S.

office, which he ran for the next nine years. In 1973 he joined New York gallery M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., as vice president in charge of 19th- and 20th-century painting, and later became managing director of Artemis, a mutual fund specializing in works of art.

In 1980 he started devoting all his time to writing and working on his Picasso biography. He was also a contributor to The New