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Thereafter, he completed a Master of Arts (MA) degree at the University of London in 1973.[1] Green was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree by the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, for his thesis “Fernand L\u00e9ger and the Parisian avant-garde, 1909\u20131921″,[5] supervised by the artist and writer John Golding.[6]Green’s first curatorial work was with Golding for the Tate exhibition L\u00e9ger and Purist Paris in 1970.[6] He remained at the Courtauld as a lecturer after completing his PhD and was later appointed a reader there.  In 1991, the Institute appointed him Professor of the History of Art,[7] a post he held until his retirement in 2008. Photographs attributed to Green are held in the Conway Library at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, whose archive, of primarily architectural images, is being digitised under the wider Courtauld Connects project.[8] For the 1997\u20138 academic year, he was a Leverhulme Research Fellow, and between 2001 and 2010, he was Trustee of National Museums Liverpool.[1]Green curated the Juan Gris exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1992,[9] the Roger Fry exhibition at the Courtauld Institute in 1999, the Henri Rousseau exhibition at the Tate Modern in Paris and Washington in 2005,[10] the Picasso exhibition in Barcelona in 2008, the Modern Antiquity exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum in 2011 and, most recently, the Mondrian\u2013Nicholson exhibition at the Courtauld in 2012.[1][11]Publications[edit]Green’s major works include:[7][6]L\u00e9ger and the Avant-Garde (Yale University Press, 1976).Cubism and its Enemies: Modern Movements and Reaction in French Art 1916\u201328 (Yale University Press, 1987).Art in France 1900\u20131940 (Yale University Press, 2000).Picasso: Architecture and Vertigo (Yale University Press, 2005).Honours[edit]In 1999, Green was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[7]Personal life[edit]In 1968, Green married Charlotte Hannah (born 1944), younger daughter of Lt-Col. Oliver Robert Marne Sebag-Montefiore (1915\u20131993), OBE, who was President of the Jewish Welfare Board. They have two children: one son and one daughter.[1][2][12][13]References[edit]^ a b c d e “Green, Prof. Christopher Kenneth”, Who’s Who 2017, A & C Black (online edn, Oxford University Press, November 2016). Retrieved 7 November 2017.^ a b Burke’s Peerage (2003), vol. 3, p. 4038.^ The Colonial Office List (London: HMSO, 1948), p. 451.^ “Marriages”, Times (London), 31 July 1967, p. 8.^ “Fernand Leger and the Parisian avant-garde, 1909\u20131921″, British Library EThOS. Retrieved 7 November 2017.^ a b c “The Painter John Golding and 20th Century Art History: Abstracts and Biographies” Archived 2017-11-07 at the Wayback Machine, Courtauld Institute of Art, 2015. Retrieved 7 November 2017.^ a b c “Professor Christopher Green”, British Academy. Retrieved 7 November 2017.^ Digitisation, Courtauld (30 June 2020). “Who made the Conway Library?”. Digital Media. Retrieved 8 October 2022.^ Juan Gris\u00a0: [Withechapel Art Gallery, London, 18 September -29 November 1992]\u00a0: [Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 18 December 1992-14 February 1993]\u00a0: [Rijksmuseum Kr\u00f6ller-M\u00fcller, Otterlo, 6 March – 2 May 1993]. Christopher, critique d’art Green, Christian Derouet. London: Whitechapel. 1992. ISBN\u00a00-300-05374-6. OCLC\u00a0716478091.{{cite book}}:  CS1 maint: others (link)^ Tate. “Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris \u2013 Press Release”. Tate. Retrieved 12 October 2022.^ Mondrian, Piet (2012). Mondrian\/Nicholson\u00a0: in parallel. Ben Nicholson, Christopher, June 11- Green, Barnaby Wright, Sophie Bowness, Lee Beard, Courtauld Institute Galleries. London: Courtauld Gallery in association with Paul Holberton Pub. ISBN\u00a0978-1-907372-32-2. OCLC\u00a0746463342.^ Burke’s Landed Gentry (1965), vol. 1, p. 507.^ W. D. Rubinstein, M. Jollies and H. L. Rubinstein, The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History (Palgrave, 2011), pp. 885\u2013886."},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki40\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki40\/christopher-green-art-historian-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Christopher Green (art historian) – Wikipedia"}}]}]