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“In their deeply researched biography, Adrian Clark and Richard Calvocoressi do not dispute what they call the ‘terrible baseline’ of Cooper’s personality. If anything, they amplify it. Yet in their exhaustive, three-part account of Cooper’s life . . . they aim to resurrect another Cooper as well.”—Hugh Eakin, Wall Street Journal “An important and well-illustrated record of the life of a major figure in the European art world.”—James Stourton, Literary Review Included in New Statesman’s “Best summer reads 2025” “In just short of 600 lavishly illustrated pages, Adrian Clark and Richard Calvocoressi do an exemplary job of setting the record straight.”—David Ekserdjian, The Oldie “Cooper was not always a likeable man, but he was never dull.”—Michael Prodger, New Statesman “A much-needed, well-informed, and amusing account of a man who championed early modernist painting.”—Dr. Clare Finn, Artlyst “The detail through which [Cooper’s life] is traced is impressive, even if, as described, the subject’s character often appals.”—Matthew Gale, Art Newspaper

“An important and well-illustrated record of the life of a major figure in the European art world.”—James Stourton, Literary Review “In just short of 600 lavishly illustrated pages, Adrian Clark and Richard Calvocoressi do an exemplary job of setting the record straight.”—David Ekserdjian, The Oldie “Cooper was not always a likeable man, but he was never dull.”—Michael Prodger, New Statesman “A much-needed, well-informed, and amusing account of a man who championed early modernist painting.”—Dr. Clare Finn, Artlyst “The detail through which [Cooper’s life] is traced is impressive, even if, as described, the subject’s character often appals.”—Matthew Gale, Art Newspaper

“An important and well-illustrated record of the life of a major figure in the European art world.”—James Stourton, Literary Review

“In their deeply researched biography, Adrian Clark and Richard Calvocoressi do not dispute what they call the ‘terrible baseline’ of Cooper’s personality. If anything, they amplify it. Yet in their exhaustive, three-part account of Cooper’s life . . . they aim to resurrect another Cooper as well.”—Hugh Eakin, Wall Street Journal Shortlisted for Apollo Book of the Year 2025 “An important and well-illustrated record of the life of a major figure in the European art world.”—James Stourton, Literary Review Included in New Statesman’s “Best summer reads 2025” “In just short of 600 lavishly illustrated pages, Adrian Clark and Richard Calvocoressi do an exemplary job of setting the record straight.”—David Ekserdjian, The Oldie “Cooper was not always a likeable man, but he was never dull.”—Michael Prodger, New Statesman “A much-needed, well-informed, and amusing account of a man who championed early modernist painting.”—Dr. Clare Finn, Artlyst “The detail through which [Cooper’s life] is traced is impressive, even if, as described, the subject’s character often appals.”—Matthew Gale, Art Newspaper

“An important and well-illustrated record of the life of a major figure in the European art world.”—James Stourton, Literary Review “In just short of 600 lavishly illustrated pages, Adrian Clark and Richard Calvocoressi do an exemplary job of setting the record straight.”—David Ekserdjian, The Oldie “Cooper was not always a likeable man, but he was never dull.”—Michael Prodger, New Statesman

Author Information

Adrian Clark has published extensively on various British artists and is the author of a biography of John Rothenstein, director (1938–64) of the Tate Gallery, and Cooper’s bête noire. He also co-wrote, with Jeremy Dronfield, a biography of the collector and financier of Horizon magazine, Peter Watson.   Richard Calvocoressi is a senior curator at Gagosian in London. He was previously director of the Henry Moore Foundation and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, where he acquired masterpieces from the collection of Cooper’s rival, Sir Roland Penrose. He has published on numerous artists, including Oskar Kokoschka, Paul Klee, Lee Miller, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Georg Baselitz, and Anselm Kiefer.

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