[2][3][4] He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating in 1966 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.
[1] Green was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree by the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, for his thesis "Fernand Léger and the Parisian avant-garde, 1909–1921",[5] supervised by the artist and writer John Golding.
[6] Green's first curatorial work was with Golding for the Tate exhibition Léger and Purist Paris in 1970.
[8] For the 1997–8 academic year, he was a Leverhulme Research Fellow, and between 2001 and 2010, he was Trustee of National Museums Liverpool.
[7] In 1968, Green married Charlotte Hannah (born 1944), younger daughter of Lt-Col. Oliver Robert Marne Sebag-Montefiore (1915–1993), OBE, who was President of the Jewish Welfare Board.