The long-awaited fourth and final volume of A Life of Picasso is now complete and set for release later in the year, yet Richardson shows no signs whatsoever of slowing down, even if macular degeneration is impacting his sight. All Rights reserved. The more historically correct that they are, the more museum-y they look. John Richardson, the British-born art historian and curator who devoted more than a quarter century to writing a monumental four-volume biography of Pablo Picasso, died on … John Richardson and Valetina Castellani at a 2009 Guggenheim Museum event. Many of his collecting instincts derive from his time at Christie’s—he set up the New York office with his friend Harry Allsop.

Accolades quickly followed. I visited Richardson in his cavernous downtown Fifth Avenue loft, which had been a former dance studio. I left the business side to other people.”, ARTWORK: ©2019 ESTATE OF PABLO PICASSO/ARTIST RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS); PHOTO: ROB MCKEEVER/COURTESY GAGOSIAN. We and our partners will store and/or access information on your device through the use of cookies and similar technologies, to display personalised ads and content, for ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. His holdings were not all snared at Christie’s or acquired through gifts of the great and good, though: some were found at junk shops. For a while, this was indeed the case. (The fourth, written with Michael Cary, is expected to cover the remainder of Picasso’s career, though details have not yet been released.).

Elsewhere are drawings by Braque, César and, of course, Warhol. In 1980, John Richardson decided to dedicate himself to writing and focused on the biography of Picasso that he had begun thinking about during his years in France. Subscribe to ARTnews today!

There, Richardson plucked up 18th-century English furniture “for a song”, he says, “and now no one wants it”. Biography Youth and education. By using The Art Newspaper website you agree to our use of cookies as described in this, John Richardson's home with his portrait by Andy Warhol, © 2019 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by DACS, London. From there, Richardson began achieving claim in the international art world. The leading source of art coverage since 1902. Starting in 2008, Richardson began acting as a special adviser to the newly minted uptown New York branch of Gagosian gallery. John Patrick Richardson was born on 6 February 1924 in London, the elder son of Sir Wodehouse Richardson, Quarter-Master General in the Boer War, and founder of the Army & Navy Stores.His mother was Patty (née Crocker); he had a younger sister (b. In the last few years, Richardson let a number of journalists into his luxe estate in rural Connecticut. Copyright © 2020 Penske Business Media, LLC. Along the way he has snapped up peculiar objects from an enormous coral brain to an apron devised from giraffe tails. Elsewhere is a profusion of blue and white porcelain. Adorned with works from the historian’s holdings, including Piranesi prints and, naturally, works by Picasso, the estate often acted as a place where Richardson could hold forth about his career and his many achievements. As we speak, Richardson is seated in his turquoise study at his massive 18th-century campaign desk. Richardson discusses his work on the fourth volume of his Picasso biography, living with Douglas Cooper in France, working for Christie's in New York, and his friendships with other artists like Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. John Richardson was born in London in 1924. He has known art world luminaries such as Peggy Guggenheim, Anthony Blunt, Andy Warhol and, of course, Pablo Picasso, about who he has written the definitive multi-volume biography. The book is packed with sumptuous photographs of those interiors and the objects within them. 1925) and a younger brother. On Fridays, we send our Editor’s picks of the top stories posted through the week. During his time at Christie’s, Richardson notes in the book, “every penny I earned went to finds that seldom served any purpose: a giant tortoise (stuffed), a jester’s rattle, a silver chamber pot, daguerreotypes of the royal family and circus freaks”. After graduating from art school, Richardson wrote for the New Statesman, and was introduced by its theatre editor to Cooper. “In every conversation with John, he taught you something new—he could reveal things about a painting and its history that no one else could know,” dealer Larry Gagosian, for whom Richardson went on to work as a special adviser, told ARTnews in a statement. One would hesitate to call it cluttered but it is packed to the brim with his “collection of presents, mostly drawings from artists I have been lucky enough to know”, Richardson says. I like to mix things up so that they galvanise each other to life.” He admits his holdings are a bit of a “hodge podge”, however. Richardson’s grandest and most acclaimed project was his multivolume biography of Pablo Picasso, the first part of which was published in 1991. “The jumble works, at least for me, but then I’m a bit of jumble myself.”, • A version of this article will be published in the forthcoming April issue of The Art Newspaper. Picasso and author John Richardson at Chateau de Vauvenargues, 1959 Author's collection. Find out how The Art Newspaper’s content platforms can help you reach an informed, influential body of collectors, cultural and creative professionals.

The art historian and Picasso biographer John Richardson died aged 95 at home in New York this morning. Our daily newsletter contains a round-up of the stories published on our website, previews of exhibitions that are opening and more. Richardson immersed himself in artistic milieux wherever he went—just as he met Freud and Bacon in London in the 1940s, in New York he frequented Warhol’s Factory and later partied with him at the infamous Studio 54 along with starlets of the era like Bianca Jagger and “Baby Jane” Holzer.

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