John Richardson ... career, Mr. Richardson wore about as many hats in the art world as anyone could. Along with being a historian and curator, he was at various times an artist himself, a dealer ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. John Richardson, who has died aged 95, wrote the greatest — albeit unfinished — biography of an artist ...

By Siri Hustvedt A LIFE OF PICASSO The Minotaur Years, 1933-1943 By John Richardson with the collaboration ... and a sensitive ability to read the artist’s work in relation to his life.

No matter what decade he happened to be in, John Richardson was an inspired and irreverent herald of an earlier time—and a font of gossip that was fresh right up to the minute. Best known for ...