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John Richardson

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About the Author

JOHN RICHARDSON is the author of the memoir, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice; an essay collection, Sacred Monsters, Sacred Masters; and books on Manet and Braque. The first volume of his Life of Picasso won England’s prestigious Whitbread Award. He wrote for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair. He was instrumental in setting up Christie’s in the United States; was made a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 1993; and served as the Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University from 1995-96. In 2019, Rizzoli Books published John Richardson: At Home, featuring Richardson’s art collection and interior design. He died in 2019.