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).
After studying at the Slade School of Fine Art, he wrote reviews for The New Observer and also worked as a designer.
In the early 1960s, he staged a major
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.
Richardson penned a 2009 work titled Warhol from the Sonnabend Collection, as well as several other books focusing on American pop Artist Andy Warhol.
