Richard Calvocoressi

A pioneering collector of Cubist art, the English art historian and critic Douglas Cooper was one of the most important – and divisive – figures in the international art world of the 20th century. Born into a wealthy family whose money was made in the 19th century in Australia, Cooper (1911–84) built up much of his collection of works by...

A prolific artist with a protean output, Georg Baselitz has rethought the conventions of a range of media, predominantly painting and sculpture, over the course of a career of some sixty years. Born in 1938, Baselitz was expelled from art school in East Berlin in 1956 for 'socio-political immaturity', and moved to the western half of the city. By the...