Richard Calvocoressi

Richard Edward Ion Calvocoressi
Richard Edward Ion Calvocoressi
Born	5 May 1951; Westerham, Kent, England
Nationality	British
Education	Eton College
Alma mater	Magdalen College, Oxford; Courtauld Institute of Art
Occupation	Museum curator
Years active	1979–present
Parents	Ion Calvocoressi (father); Katherine Kennedy (mother);

Richard Edward Ion Calvocoressi CBE (b. 5 May 1951) is a British museum curator and art historian.

Career

Calvocoressi was born in Westerham, Kent,[1] one of three sons of Major Ion Calvocoressi. He was educated at Eton College,[2] and graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford and the Courtauld Institute of Art. He served as an assistant keeper of modern art at the Tate Gallery from 1979 until 1987,[1] and was director of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh from 1987 until 2007. He then served as director of the Henry Moore Foundation, and in 2015 became the director and senior curator of the Gagosian Gallery.[3][4]

Calvocoressi was appointed to the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art on 13 November 2012, serving until 12 November 2016.[5]

He married Francesca Roberts in 1976. They have three children.[2]

He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2008 for "services to the Arts, particularly in Scotland".[6]

Marine Painting. Oxford: Phaidon. 1978. ISBN 978-0-71481-774-3.
Magritte. Oxford: Phaidon. 1979. ISBN 978-0-71481-965-5.
A. R. Penck: Brown's Hotel and other works. London: Tate Gallery. 1984.
Lucian Freud: Early Works. Edinburgh: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. 1997. ISBN 978-0-90359-866-8.
Lee Miller: Portraits from a Life. London: Thames & Hudson. 2002. ISBN 978-0-50028-522-0.
Francis Bacon: Late Paintings. New York: Rizzoli International. 2016. ISBN 978-0-84784-775-4.

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Mosley, Charles, ed. (1999). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage (106th ed.). Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. Retrieved 29 September 2017 – via thepeerage.com.
"Calvocoressi, Richard". Library of Congress. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
"Richard Calvocoressi". The Art Business Conference. 2017. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
"Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Object of Cultural Interest appointments" (PDF). Department for Culture, Media and Sport. November 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2017.
"No. 58729". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2008. p. 4.

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