Richard Calvocoressi

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

Career Calvocoressi was born in Westerham, Kent, one of three sons of Major Ion Calvocoressi, MBE, MC (1919-2007) and Katherine, née Kennedy (b. 1927). He was educated at Eton College, Brooke House, Market Harborough, 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,

Calvocoressi was appointed to the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art on 13 November 2012, serving until 12 November 2016. He was subsequently reappointed for another four-year term.

Personal life He married Francesca Temple Roberts in 1976. They have three children.

Selected publications

Lucian Freud on Paper. London: Jonathan Cape 2008.

Georg Baselitz. London: Thames & Hudson. 2021