Sir John Richardson obituary

Art historian and biographer of PicassoThe art historian John Richardson, who has died aged 95, was the author of a magisterial biography of Pablo Picasso, the first volume of which was published in 1991 and won the Whitbread book of the year award, and which is still in progress.The first part of A Life of Picasso, The Prodigy, concluded with the climactic year of 1906, when the shock to Picasso’s system of the primitive reductions of form in Matisse’s woodcuts and his magnificent c