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John Richardson

John Richardson
John Richardson is the author of A Life of Picasso (3 volumes; the first volume won the 1991 Whitbread Book of the Year Award), Sacred Monsters, Sacred Masters, and books on Edouard Manet and Georges Braque. Richardson was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth in 2012. He died in March 2019.


How Picasso Built the Foundation for the Surrealist Movement

John Richardson on the Famed Painter's Friendships with Surrealist Writers and Artists
November 17, 2021  By John Richardson
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Inside the Artist Studio of Georges Braque

John Richardson on getting to know “the antithesis of Picasso—cool, meditative, at peace.”
November 13, 2019  By John Richardson
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