A personal memoir recalling the French actor’s “serious case of collectoritis” that saw him acquiring works by Albrecht Dürer, Théodore Géricault and Georges Braque

The former director of Cologne’s Museum Ludwig “shaped the art discourse of the last five decades like no other", the museum says

A prolific painter helped open doors for contemporary artists at a time when Indigenous art was often confined to ethnographic museums

Hoepker used long-form pictorial narratives to deliver nuanced takes on complex realities in a communist East Germany and capitalist United States

The influential American pioneer produced a ground-breaking body of work in partnership with his wife, Kira Perov, over more than 45 years

A survey of the artist's work from the last four years of her life, will be on view at the Parrish Art Museum this autumn

Her six decade-long career was distinguished by experimentation and humour

An East Village fixture for a half-century, Van Dalen created stylised drawings, paintings, sculptures and performances documenting his surroundings

The American artist married complex with simple, from Minimalist canvases to “maximalist” sculptures

"The acerbic and sometimes misanthropic troublemaker who was such a generous champion of younger artists and critics"

New York artist was acclaimed for the power of her paintings and quilts telling the civil rights story

In tributes, friends and colleagues described him as “icon of the Ukrainian queer underground” and “a holy man”

Felsen was also a trained artist and prolific photographer, who documented his close contact with the artists who worked at Gemini

His irreverent texts, signed simply “Ben”, spanned art and merchandise that was ubiquitous in France

Peri, who was abducted from his home in Kibbutz Nir Oz on 7 October, was a multi-disciplinary artist and activist who founded The White House gallery

His death was confirmed by Epiris, the private equity firm that owns the auction house

His landmark "Black Paintings" series marked Stella as a Minimalist in the 1960s before he expanded his range to include brightly coloured pieces on shaped canvases, relief paintings, large-scale sculpture and work with architects

A champion of fellow Black and women artists, the New York-born painter and sculptor made a second reputation as writer and illustrator of admired children's stories

The American sculptor received the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale

His Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Tang Teaching Museum and Tacoma Art Museum were typical of an approach that melded modernism and post-modernism into a characteristically unpredictable aesthetic

The Greek American artist was always willing to try new forms and materials, working across sculpture, photography, performance, installation and more

The artist, hailed as the "Van Gogh of Gaza", suffered from chest and lung issues that needed urgent care

His 50-year career was filled with transgressive performances, including the Times Square Crawls, which interrogated race and class

Brus was the last surviving founder of the movement, though he abandoned performance art after 1970

Best known for his album covers for bands including Depeche Mode, the UK photographer was influenced by the heavy industry of the Black Country where he grew up

Andre rose to prominence in the New York art world of the 1960s to become a totemic—and controversial—figure renowned for his material-driven sculptures

Whitman was a pioneer of the early performance art events known as Happenings and collaborated with Robert Rauschenberg and others on technologically ambitious projects

The founder of Chelsea's Sikkema Jenkins & Co was 75 years old

The artists Vivan Sundaram and Françoise Gilot, collectors Harald Falckenberg and Barry Humphries plus curator Vincent Honoré were also lost to the art world this year

The artist, known for his Crawl series, treated 'absurdity of racism in an unflinching way’