Douglas Cooper (art historian)

Douglas Cooper
Born
Arthur William Douglas Cooper

(1911-02-20)20 February 1911
Essex, England
Died1 April 1984(1984-04-01) (aged 73)
Alma materRepton School
Trinity College, Cambridge
Occupation(s)Art historian, collector

(Arthur William) Douglas Cooper, who also published as Douglas Lord,[1][2] (20 February 1911 – 1 April 1984)[3] was a British art historian, art critic and art collector. He mainly collected Cubist 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.

  1. ^ Cooper, Douglas. In: Dictionary of Art Historians, retrieved 13 August 2010.
  2. ^ John Richardson: Remembering Douglas Cooper. In: The New York Review of Books, retrieved 13 August 2010.
  3. ^ ‘Cooper, (Arthur William) Douglas’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007.