John Golding (10 September 1929 – 9 April 2012) was a British artist, art scholar, and curator, perhaps best known for his seminal text ''Cubism: A History and an Analysis, 1907–1914'', first published in 1959 and later revised in several subsequent editions. He taught "Art of the Modern Period" at the

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from 1959 to 1981 and was elected a Fellow of

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in 1994.Great Thinkers: Dawn Adès FBA on John Golding FBA, podcast, 2019
/ref> As a curator "he made his public mark with another

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 ...

scholar, Elizabeth Cowling, by curating two groundbreaking exhibitions at the

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Gallery in London: Picasso: Sculptor/Painter, in 1994, and Matisse/Picasso, in 2002-03, which also travelled to the

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in Paris and the

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