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He spent the rest of the war with his mother and siblings in London. During this period he met and made friends with Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, both of whom later painted portraits of him. When he was called up for military service, he obtained a position in the Irish Guards, but almost immediately contracted rheumatic fever and was invalided out of the army. When he was thirteen he became a boarder at Stowe School, where he admired the architecture and landscape and was taught something about the work of Picasso and other innovative painters.īy 1939 and the outbreak of World War II, Richardson knew that he wanted to become an artist, and, a month short of seventeen, enrolled at the Slade School of Fine Art (at that time evacuated to Oxford), where he became a friend of Geoffrey Bennison and James Bailey. In 1929, when he was five years old, his father died, and his mother sent him to board at two successive preparatory schools, where he was unhappy. His mother was Patty (née Crocker) he had a younger sister (b. 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. He was awarded France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2011 and in 2012 was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.īiography Youth and education In 1993, Richardson was elected to the British Academy and in 1995 he was appointed Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford. He was also a contributor to The New Yorker and Vanity Fair.

In 1980 he started devoting all his time to writing and working on his Picasso biography. Knoedler & Co., Inc., as vice president in charge of 19th- and 20th-century painting, and later became managing director of Artemis, a mutual fund specializing in works of art. office, which he ran for the next nine years. Christie's then appointed him to open their U.S. In 1960, he moved to New York and organized a nine-gallery Picasso retrospective. In 1952, he moved to Provence, where he became friends with Picasso, Fernand Léger and Nicolas de Staël. Richardson also worked as an industrial designer and as a reviewer for The New Observer. Sir John Patrick Richardson, KBE, FBA (6 February 1924 – 12 March 2019) was a British art historian and biographer of Pablo Picasso.