![]() ![]() ![]() In 1993 he was made a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. ![]() The first volume of his Life of Picasso was published to wide acclaim in 1991 and won England's prestigious Whitbread Prize. Besides having organized various exhibitions, he has written books on Manet and Braque and is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. In the early 1960s Richardson went to live in New York City where he was appointed head of Christie's U.S. With Picasso's encouragement he embarked on an analytic study of the artist's portraits, part of which is incorporated in the present biography. For the next twelve years he lived in France where he became friends with Picasso, Braque, Léger, and Cocteau. In 1949 he moved to Provence, where he helped the collector Douglas Cooper transform the Château de Castille near Avignon into a private museum of cubist painting. He studied art at the Slade School but soon gave up painting for art criticism. ![]()
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