Richard Calvocoressi
Richard Edward Ion Calvocoressi is a British museum curator and art historian.Career
Calvocoressi was born in Westerham, Kent, one of three sons of Major Ion Calvocoressi. He was educated at Eton College, 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, 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.
Calvocoressi was appointed to the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art on 13 November 2012, serving until 12 November 2016.Personal life
He married Francesca Roberts in 1976. They have three children.
He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2008 for "services to the Arts, particularly in Scotland".Selected publications
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