(Arthur William) Douglas Cooper, who also published as Douglas Lord,
[''Cooper, Douglas''.](_blank)
In: ''Dictionary of Art Historians'', retrieved 13 August 2010.[John Richardson]
Remembering Douglas Cooper.
In: The New York Review of Books
''The New York Review of Books'' (or ''NYREV'' or ''NYRB'') is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs. Published in New York City, it is inspired by the idea that the discussion of ...
, retrieved 13 August 2010. (20 February 1911 – 1 April 1984)
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Cooper, (Arthur William) Douglas
��, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007. was a British
art historian
Art history is the study of artistic works made throughout human history. Among other topics, it studies art’s formal qualities, its impact on societies and cultures, and how artistic styles have changed throughout history.
Traditionally, the ...
,
art critic
An art critic is a person who is specialized in analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating art. Their written critiques or reviews contribute to art criticism and they are published in newspapers, magazines, books, exhibition brochures, and catalogue ...
and
art collector. He mainly collected
Cubist
Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement which began in Paris. It revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and sparked artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture.
Cubist subjects are analyzed, broke ...
works. He was involved with investigating who had dealt with stolen art during the war. After the war he bought a chateau and converted it into a gallery of early cubist art.
Background
Cooper's father, Arthur Hamilton Cooper, of The Manor House,
Blandford St Mary,
Dorset
Dorset ( ; Archaism, archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north and the north-east, Hampshire to the east, t ...
, a Major with the
Essex Regiment
The Essex Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1958. The regiment served in many conflicts such as the Second Boer War and both World War I and World War II, serving with distinction in all three. ...
, was the second son of
Sir William Charles Cooper, 3rd Baronet; his mother, Mabel Alice, was the daughter of Sir William Henry Marriott
Smith-Marriott, 5th Baronet. Cooper's biographer and longtime partner
John Richardson considered his suffering from the social exclusion of his family by his countrymen to be a defining characteristic of his friend, explaining in particular his
Anglophobia.
[John Richardson: ]
Obituary
', The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 127, No. 985 (Apr. 1985), pp. 228+230-231, retrieved 13 August 2010
Early in the 19th century, Cooper's forebears had emigrated to Australia and acquired great wealth, in particular property in
Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales and the List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Syd ...
. His great-grandfather
Daniel Cooper became a member of the
New South Wales
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legislature and was the first Speaker of the
new Legislative Assembly in 1856. He was made a
baronet
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in 1863 and spent his time both in Australia and England, eventually settling permanently in England, and dying in London. His son and grandson also lived there and sold their Australian property in the 1920s, very much to Douglas's annoyance.
Education
As a teenager, his erudite uncle Gerald Cooper took him on a trip to
Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo ( ; ; or colloquially ; , ; ) is an official administrative area of Monaco, specifically the Ward (country subdivision), ward of Monte Carlo/Spélugues, where the Monte Carlo Casino is located. Informally, the name also refers to ...
, where Cooper saw the
Sergei Diaghilev
Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev ( ; rus, Серге́й Па́влович Дя́гилев, , sʲɪrˈɡʲej ˈpavləvʲɪdʑ ˈdʲæɡʲɪlʲɪf; 19 August 1929), also known as Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario an ...
's ballet company; his biographer traces an arc from here to Cooper's late work ''Picasso et le Théatre''. He went to
Repton School
Repton School is a 13–18 co-educational, private, boarding and day school in the public school tradition, in Repton, Derbyshire, England.
Sir John Port of Etwall, on his death in 1557, left funds to create a grammar school which was th ...
and
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any ...
, graduating in 1930 with a third in the French section and a second (division 2) in the French section of the Medieval and Modern Languages Tripos. When he was 21, he inherited £100,000 (then about US$500,000, a significant fortune), enabling him to study art history at the
Sorbonne, in Paris and at the
University of Freiburg
The University of Freiburg (colloquially ), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (), is a public university, public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The university was founded in 1 ...
in Germany, which was not possible at the time in Cambridge.
Art business
In 1933, he became a partner in the
Mayor Gallery in London and planned to show works of
Picasso
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, Ceramic art, ceramicist, and Scenic ...
,
Léger,
Miró and
Klee
Paul Klee (; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented wi ...
in collaboration with Paris-based art dealers like
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and
Pierre Loeb (1897–1964); however, this collaboration ended quickly and unfavourably. Cooper was paid out in works of art.
Cooper attributed this failure not least to the conservative policy of the
Tate Gallery
Tate is an institution that houses, in a network of four art galleries, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. It is not a government institution, but its main sponsor is the UK ...
; according to Richardson, his resentment was the catalyst for the structure of his own collection, designed to prove the backwardness of the Tate Gallery. At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, he had acquired 137 cubist works, partly with the help of the collector and dealer
Gottlieb Reber (1880–1959),
some of them masterpieces, using a third of his inheritance.
Military career
Cooper was not eligible for regular military service, due to an eye injury, so he chose to join a medical unit in
Paris
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when
World War II
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started, commanded by the art patron Etienne de Beaumont, who had commissioned works by Picasso and
Braque
Georges Braque ( ; ; 13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963) was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His most notable contributions were in his alliance with Fauvism from 1905, and the role he play ...
, among others. His account of the transfer of wounded soldiers to
Bordeaux
Bordeaux ( ; ; Gascon language, Gascon ; ) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde Departments of France, department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the Prefectures in F ...
to be shipped to
Plymouth
Plymouth ( ) is a port city status in the United Kingdom, city and unitary authority in Devon, South West England. It is located on Devon's south coast between the rivers River Plym, Plym and River Tamar, Tamar, about southwest of Exeter and ...
achieved some fame when published in 1941 by him and his co-driver
C. Denis Freeman (''The Road to Bordeaux''). For this action, he received a French ''
Médaille militaire
The ''Médaille militaire'' (, "Military Medal") is a military decoration of the French Republic for other ranks for meritorious service and acts of bravery in action against an enemy force. It is the third highest award of the French Republic, ...
''.
Back in
Liverpool
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Cooper was arrested as a spy because of his French uniform, missing papers and improper behaviour, treatment for which he never forgave his fellow countrymen. Subsequently, he joined the
Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the Air force, air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. It was formed towards the end of the World War I, First World War on 1 April 1918, on the merger of t ...
Intelligence unit and was sent to Cairo as an interrogator, a job at which he was enormously successful in squeezing out secrets from even hard-boiled prisoners, not least due to his "'evil queen' ferocity, penetrating intelligence, and refusal to take no for an answer, as well as his ability to storm, rant, and browbeat in
Hochdeutsch,
dialect
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, or
argot
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,
hich
Ij () is a village in Golabar Rural District of the Central District in Ijrud County, Zanjan province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq ...
were just the qualifications that his new job required.".
He greatly enjoyed the social life there.
Nazi looted art
After a short interlude in
Malta
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, Cooper was assigned to a unit trying to investigate Nazi looted art, called the Royal Air Force Intelligence, British Element,
Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA).
[Monuments Men Foundation]
''Cooper, Sqdr. Ldr. Douglas''
memory page for the members of the Royal Air Force Intelligence, British Element, Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA) He was very successful, his most eminent discovery being the Schenker Papers which made it possible to prove that Paris dealers, Swiss collectors, German experts and museums, in particular the
Museum Folkwang
Museum Folkwang is a major collection of 19th- and 20th-century art in Essen, Germany. The museum was established in 1922 by merging the Essener Kunstmuseum, which was founded in 1906, and the private Folkwang Museum of the collector and patr ...
in
Essen
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were deeply engaged in looting Jewish property and ''
entartete Kunst'' as well as building collections for
Hitler
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his suicide in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the lea ...
and
Hermann Göring
Hermann Wilhelm Göring (or Goering; ; 12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German Nazism, Nazi politician, aviator, military leader, and convicted war criminal. He was one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party, which gov ...
(
Schenker was the transport company shipping art to Germany, having excellent bookkeeping)
Equally amazing to MFAA investigators
was his detailed research on the Swiss art trade during the war; it turned out that many dealers and collectors had been involved in trading looted art. Cooper spent the whole month of February 1945 as emissary of the MFAA and the corresponding French organisation, interrogating dealers and collectors who had dealt with the Nazis and especially
Theodor Fischer of the Fischer Gallery who in 1939 managed the sale of confiscated
"degenerate" artworks.
He was particularly proud to have found and arrested the Swiss
Charles Montag, one of Hitler's art advisors, who had assembled a private art collection of mostly stolen items for Hitler and was involved in the liquidation of the Paris gallery
Bernheim-Jeune; surprisingly, Montag was quickly released. Cooper arrested him again immediately, only to see him set free once again, due to Montag's good connections to
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 (Winston Churchill in the Second World War, ...
, who refused to believe that his longtime friend and teacher, "good old Montag", could have done anything objectionable.
Provence
After the Second World War, Cooper returned to England, but could not settle in his native country and moved to southern France, where in 1950 he bought the Château de Castille near
Avignon
Avignon (, , ; or , ; ) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France. Located on the left bank of the river Rhône, the Communes of France, commune had a ...
, a suitable place to show his impressive art collection, which he continued to expand with newer artists such as
Klee
Paul Klee (; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented wi ...
and
Miró. During the following years, art historians, collectors, dealers and artists flocked to his home which had become something of an epicenter of Cubism, very much to his pride.
Léger and
Picasso
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, Ceramic art, ceramicist, and Scenic ...
were regular guests; the latter even became a substantial part of its life.
He regarded Picasso as the only genius of the 20th century and he became a substantial promoter of the artist. Picasso tried several times to induce Cooper to sell his house to him; however, he would not agree and finally in 1958 recommended to Picasso the acquisition of
Château of Vauvenargues.
Liaison with John Richardson
In 1950, he became acquainted with the art historian
John Richardson, sharing his life with him for the next 10 years. Richardson moved to the Château de Castille in 1952 and transformed the run-down mansion into a private museum of early
Cubism
Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement which began in Paris. It revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and sparked artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture.
Cubist subjects are analyzed, broke ...
. Cooper had been at home in the Paris art scene before World War II and had been active in the art business as well; by building his own collection, he also met many artists personally and introduced them to his friends. Richardson and Cooper became close friends of Picasso,
[The Guardian: Picasso nearly risked his reputation for Franco exhibition](_blank)
Had he accepted it would have been major coup for Falangists and destroyed Picasso's status as hero of left, says biographer. By Charlotte Higgins, 28. Mai 2010, retrieved 13 August 2010. Fernand Léger
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (; February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painting, painter, sculpture, sculptor, and film director, filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism (known as "tubism") which he gradually ...
and
Nicolas de Staël
Nicolas de Staël (; January 5, 1914 – March 16, 1955) was a French painter of Russian origin known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting. He also worked with collage, illustration and textiles.
Early li ...
as well. At that time Richardson developed an interest in Picasso's portraits and contemplated creating a publication; more than 20 years later, these plans expanded into Richardson's four-part Picasso biography ''A Life of Picasso''.
[The AI Interview: John Richardson](_blank)
Artinfo. By David Grosz, 29 May 2008, retrieved 13 August 2010. In 1960, Richardson left Cooper and moved to New York City.
Author
Cooper published frequently in ''
The Burlington Magazine
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'' and wrote numerous monographs and catalogues about artists of the 19th century, including
Degas
Edgar Degas (, ; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, ; 19 July 183427 September 1917) was a French people, French Impressionism, Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings.
Degas also produced bronze sculptures, Print ...
,
van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created approximately 2,100 artwork ...
and
Renoir, but also about the Cubists he collected. He was among the first
art critic
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s to write about
modern art
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with the same erudition common for artists of the past; in the years before the Second World War, he was a pioneer in this respect. When his catalogue of the exhibition ''The
Courtauld Collection'' appeared in 1954, ''
The Times
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'' wrote about it:
His most important achievement is probably the
catalogue raisonné
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A ''catalogue raisonné'' is normal ...
of
Juan Gris
José Victoriano González-Pérez (23 March 1887 – 11 May 1927), better known as Juan Gris (; ), was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France for most of his active period. Closely connected to the innovative artistic g ...
, which he completed in 1978, six years before his death, and 40 years after beginning it. He was
Slade Professor of Fine Art
The Slade Professorship of Fine Art is the oldest professorship of art and art history at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and University College, London.
History
The chairs were founded concurrently in 1869 by a bequest from the art collect ...
at
Oxford
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The city is home to the University of Oxford, the List of oldest universities in continuou ...
from 1957 to 1958 and guest professor at
Bryn Mawr and the Courtauld Institute in 1961.
Appreciation
Cooper is an important figure among art experts of the 20th century, however he was controversial because of his contentiousness and his strong need to be the centre of public attention. He was accused not only of
plagiarism
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and inaccuracies in his works, but also of "flexible ethics" and "cultivating quarrels as much as friends".
Cooper not only contributed to ''The Burlington Magazine'' as an author, but also served on its board of directors and held shares; he nevertheless tried to force the editor,
Benedict Nicolson, to resign, unsuccessfully. In the 1950s, he attacked the Tate Gallery director
John Rothenstein, mostly for not supporting
Modern Art
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, trying to get him dismissed.
He even managed to anger Picasso so much that he excluded him from his circle and surroundings after he pressed Picasso around 1970 to legalise his children.
Misfortunes
In 1961, Cooper was found on a road outside
Nîmes
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, heavily injured by stab wounds in the stomach; on his way to the post office in Nîmes to send an article about Picasso's birthday to a London newspaper, he had stopped at a notorious quarter and picked up a young Algerian
Fellagha (resistance fighter against the French occupation forces) who had been interned in an open camp nearby. They drove to a lonely area, where the boy drew a knife and required Cooper's money or his life.
Like most people in France in those days, Cooper carried two purses, one with change and one with large bills. He handed over the first, infuriating the robber, who demanded more money and stabbed him several times. Cooper pushed back his intestines and dragged himself towards the city, his training as a
medic
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proving very useful; against all odds, his cries for help in that lonely area were finally heard, so he could be saved, although he had lost much blood and his intestines were heavily damaged. The culprit was arrested and claimed to have been resisting a sexual assault.
In 1974, about 20 small paintings by Picasso,
Braque
Georges Braque ( ; ; 13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963) was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His most notable contributions were in his alliance with Fauvism from 1905, and the role he play ...
and Gris were stolen from his house; Cooper dismissed his old housekeeper and in consequence lost the respect of his neighbours. Afterwards, he relocated to
Monte Carlo
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, mainly for safety reasons, where he led a rather secluded life. Both incidents were reported by major English and French newspapers.
Old age
In the summer of 1965, Cooper had organized a large exhibition in Toulouse called ''Picasso et le Théatre'' in amicable agreement with Picasso and published the book about this subject two years later. However he was not pleased with Picasso's late work. As a protest against praise in the French art magazine ''Connaissance des Arts'', he made sure that a letter to the editor was published after the death of Picasso in 1973, where he declared:
Although it looks like he might have wanted to come to terms with the Tate Gallery at the end of his life (in 1983, he organized the exhibition ''Essential Cubism'' for them), he never overcame his aversion to England. In particular, he did not esteem any art produced in his native country. In a letter to the editor of ''The Times'', he declared in 1980:
Towards the end of his life, he was honoured by being appointed the first foreign patron of the
Museo del Prado
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in Madrid, which made him very proud. In gratitude, he donated his best ''
Gris'' to the Prado, ''Portrait of the Artist's Wife'' from 1916, and a cubist ''Still Life with Pigeons'' by Picasso. His only other donation went to the
Kunstmuseum Basel
The Kunstmuseum Basel houses the oldest public art collection in the world and is generally considered to be the most important museum of art in Switzerland. It is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
Its lineage extends ba ...
; the Tate Gallery didn't receive anything. Cooper died on 1 April 1984 (
April Fools' Day
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), perhaps completely fitting, as he predicted. He left an incomplete catalogue raisonné of
Paul Gauguin
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (; ; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements. He was also an influ ...
and his art collection to his adopted son William McCarty Cooper (having adopted him according to French law, in order that nobody else would inherit anything, in particular not his family).
[''The Sorcerer's Apprentice.'', p. 302 ff.] His written legacy is kept at the
Getty Research Institute
The Getty Research Institute (GRI), located at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, is "dedicated to furthering knowledge and advancing understanding of the visual arts". , Los Angeles, CA.
Selected publications
*
C. Denis Freeman, Douglas Cooper: ''The road to Bordeaux.'' Harper, New York and London 1941
* Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (Transl.: Douglas Cooper):
Juan Gris : his life and work.' Valentin, New York 1947
* Douglas Cooper: ''William Turner 1775–1851.'' Les éditions Braun. Paris 1949
* Douglas Cooper (Hg.: Kenneth Clark): ''Paul Klee.'' Penguin Books, Middlesex 1949
* Douglas Cooper: ''Henri Rousseau.''
ranzösisch – Englisch – Deutsch Braun/Soho Gallery. Paris/London 1951
* Douglas Cooper (Hsg., Übers.: Paola Calvino):
Pastelle von Edgar Degas.' Holbein-Verlag, Basel 1952
* Douglas Cooper (Hsg., Ausgew. u. eingel. von Georg Schmidt):
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.' Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1955
* Douglas Cooper, R. Wehrli et al.: ''Masterpieces of French Painting from the Bührle Collection. – The National Gallery – London – 29 September – 5 November 1961'' Katalog. Arts Council of Britain, London 1961
* Douglas Cooper: ''
Nicolas de Staël
Nicolas de Staël (; January 5, 1914 – March 16, 1955) was a French painter of Russian origin known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting. He also worked with collage, illustration and textiles.
Early li ...
, Masters and Movements'', Weidenfeld and Nicolson Ltd. London, 1961.
* Douglas Cooper: ''Pablo Picasso Les Déjeuners.'' Éditions Cercle d'Art, Paris 1962
* Douglas Cooper (Hsg., Einl. von Kenneth Clark, Übers. Ingeborg Ramseger unter Mitarb. von Johanna Manns u. Eva Jantzen.):
Berühmte private Kunstsammlungen.' Stalling, Oldenburg/Hamburg 1963
* Douglas Cooper (Red.):
Georges Braque.' Ausstellungskatalog. Haus d. Kunst, München, 18. Oktober bis 15. Dezember 1963
* Douglas Cooper (Einleit.): ''PICASSO Deux Epoques *. Gemälde 1960–65 und aus den Jahren 1954, 1957, 1944.'' Mengis + im Auftrag, Luzern 1966
* Douglas Cooper: ''Picasso et le Théatre.'' Éditions Cercle d'Art, Paris 1967
* Douglas Cooper (Red.):
Graham Sutherland.' Ausstellungskatalog. Haus d. Kunst München, 11. März – 7. Mai 1967; Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, 2. Juni – 30. Juli 1967; Haus am Waldsee Berlin, 11. Aug. – 24. Sept. 1967; Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Köln, 7. Okt. – 20. Nov. 1967
* Douglas Cooper (Hsg.):
Große Familiensammlungen.' Droemer/Knaur, München/Zürich 1963
* Douglas Cooper (Übers. a. d. Franz. Jean Yves Mock):
César.' Bodensee-Verlag, Amriswil 1970
* Douglas Cooper: ''The cubist epoch.'' Phaidon Press, London 1970
* Douglas Cooper:
Juan Gris.' Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden 1974
* Douglas Cooper (Margaret Potter, Juan Gris):
Juan Gris. Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint (établi avec la collaboration de Margaret Potter.).' Berggruen, Paris 1977
References
Further reading
* John Richardson: ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooper.'' The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1999,
* Dorothy M Kosinski, John Richardson, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel: ''Douglas Cooper und die Meister des Kubismus, and the masters of cubism.'' Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel 1987,
*
Werner Spies (Hrsg.): ''Malen gegen die Zeit.'' Ausstellungskatalog, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2006,
External links
* Obituary
''Douglas Cooper'' In: ''Die Zeit'', 27 April 1984, Nr. 18
*
Douglas Cooper papers housed at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession No. 860161. The collection chronicles Douglas Cooper's long career as critic, curator, and collector, as well his wide circle of associations within the art world.
''Cooper, Douglas'' A Biographical Dictionary of Historic Scholars, Museum Professionals and Academic Historians of Art
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Monuments men
Royal Air Force personnel of World War II
20th-century British historians
Slade Professors of Fine Art (University of Oxford)
English LGBTQ writers
20th-century English LGBTQ people