Obituaries
I, dealer in heroes: Obituary for Leo Castelli
In memory of the man behind Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly, James Rosenquist and Roy Lichtenstein
The director of the Louvre, Pierre Rosenberg remembers his friend, Italy’s most famous art historian
Federico Zeri, an independent mind
Obituary for Michael Jaffé: As demanding of himself as he was of others
A formidable connoisseur, academic and museum director who inspired many top figures in the British art world.
Mumbay Pupal Jayakar: Defender of Indian crafts and friend of Indira Ghandi
Mumbay Pupal Jayakar, a towering figure of Indian cultural life for the last fifty years, died aged eighty-one in March.
Death of Peter Ludwig, mega-collector
The chocolate magnate both infuriated and stimulated the German art scene for nearly thirty years
Two mega-collectors die
Ryoei Saito, chief of the Daishowa Paper Company and Stavros Niarchos, shipping magnate
Joshua Compston, an obituary
Aged twenty-five years old, London gallerist Joshua Compston died on Wednesday, 6 March, 1996.
Walter Goetz, cartoonist, collector and friend of The Art Newspaper dies
Contributor to Vogue, Harpers and Punch amongst others
Obituary for Annette Giacometti
Both Giacometti's spouse and favourite subject, Annette's championing of his talent persisted after his passing
Norton Simon, greatest of post-war collectors, dies
Simon's widow has announced that his art collection will remain at the museum in Pasadena
Otto Von Simson dies
Professor Otto von Simson, the German art historian, died in Berlin at the end of May, aged 80.
Jean Tinguely dies
Jean Tinguely was born in Fribourg in 1925 and died of a stroke 30 August.