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John Richardson

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

The elder son of Sir Wodehouse Richardson, he was sent to board at two successive schools after his father's death in 1929. When he was thirteen he became a boarder at Stowe school, where he admired the architecture and landscape and was taught something about the work of Picasso and other innovative painters. After bring invalided out of the army in the Second World War, he worked in London as an industrial designer and became friends with the painters Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud.

In 1949 Richardson met the art historian and collector Douglas Cooper and the two began a relationship that would last ten years. In 1952, he ...more

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	A Life of Picasso, Vol. 1: The Early Years, 1881-1906 by John Richardson, Marilyn McCully 4.29 avg rating — 2,008 ratings — published 1991 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Life of Picasso, Vol. 2: The Painter of Modern Life, 1907-1917 4.42 avg rating — 353 ratings — published 1996 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years: 1917-1932 (Vol 3) 4.25 avg rating — 326 ratings — published 2007 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Life Of Picasso: The Minotaur Years: 1933-1943 4.32 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sorcerer's Apprentice: A Memoir of Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooper 4.04 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 1999 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sacred Monsters, Sacred Masters: Beaton, Capote, Dalí, Picasso, Freud, Warhol, and More 3.92 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2001 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	John Richardson: At Home by John Richardson, James Reginato (Introduction) 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The House of Thurn und Taxis by John Richardson (Contributor), Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis (Contributor), Martin Mosebach (Contributor) 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Picasso and Francoise Gilot: Paris--Vallauris, 1943-1953 by John Richardson (Contributor), Charles Stuckey (Text), Michael Cary (Text) 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pablo Picasso and Marie-Therese: L'Amour Fou by John Richardson (Editor), Diana Widmaier Picasso (Editor), Elizabeth Cowling (Editor) 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Erik Satie died on July 1, 1925; his last words were 'Ah, the cows...”
― John Richardson, A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years: 1917-1932

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“Designer Elsa Schiaparelli’s enormously popular perfume, Shocking, launched in 1937, was one of countless products to derive inspiration from surrealism, revealing how rapidly a movement that was rooted in radical Marxist and Freudian principles could degenerate, so far as its founders were concerned, into an eye-catching, mind-blowing gimmick of immense use to advertisers, fashion photographers, and moviemakers. Breton would be horrified by this development; Dalí delighted.”
― John Richardson, A Life of Picasso IV: The Minotaur Years: 1933-1943

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