He sensed somehow that I was going to write about him. A close friendship developed between the two men. They moved to Provence in the south of France, where Cooper introduced Richardson to Picasso in 1948. He then met art historian Douglas Cooper, who would become Richardson’s partner for ten years. When it became clear that making art wasn’t in the cards for his career, Richardson turned to art criticism, writing for the New Statesman, the left-leaning British newspaper. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and briefly went on to do window design for Harrods, as well as some textile designing. “We will assess it all after the dust settles.” The author’s long-anticipated fourth volume of A Life of Picasso is complete and scheduled to be published later this year, according to the Art Newspaper. “A publication date for the final volume has not been set,” the Knopf spokesperson told artnet News. A representative from Knopf, Richardson’s publisher, confirmed the news. British art historian John Richardson, known for his multi-volume biography of Pablo Picasso, died today at age 95.
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