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John Richardson's Death

Born (Birthday) February 22, 1924

Death Date March 12, 2019

Age of Death 95 years

Cause of Death N/A

Profession Novelist

The novelist John Richardson died at the age of 95. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Notable for his art history scholarship, he is most famous for his multi-volume, Whitbread Award-winning biography A Life of Picasso. His other works include Sacred Monsters, Sacred Masters: Beaton, Capote, Dali, Picasso, Freud, Warhol, and More (2001) and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooper (1999).

He and his two younger siblings grew up in London as the children of Sir Wodehouse Richardson and Patty Crocker Richardson. During the 1950s, he had a lengthy relationship with fellow art historian Douglas Cooper.