Throughout the 1950s he lived with his former partner and the journal’s theater editor, Douglas Cooper, in a château in the south of France, where he met Picasso, Fernand Léger, Jean Cocteau, Georges Braque, and others. The son of Sir Wodehouse Richardson, a Boer war general who cofounded the Army and Navy stores and was knighted by King Edward VII, he studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London before beginning to write for the New Statesman. Unlike most artist biographies, this one needsand getshundreds of images, producing a seamless weave of life and art. In the December 1999 issue of Artforum, Robert Rosenblum wrote of Richardson’s books: “The prose is so swift and nimble that, even if this were merely a life of the mayor of Málaga, we would read it breathlessly but given the titanic subject, every precise and gossipy detail about friends, artists, dealers, and lovers casts new light. A fourth volume is expected to be forthcoming. He published his first biography on Picasso, Life of Picasso: The Prodigy, 1881–1906, in 1991_ _it was followed by Life of Picasso: The Painter of Modern Life, 1907–1917 (1996) and Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917–1932 (2007). and managing director of the art investments firm Artemis. In the 1990s, Richardson’s focus became more academic, and he joined the British Academy and taught art at the University of Oxford. Richardson opened the New York branch of Christie’s in 1960 and went on to serve as vice president of M.
John Richardson, an art historian and curator best known for his prodigious scholarship on Pablo Picasso, died at his home in New York today at the age of ninety-five, reports the New York Times.
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