Obituaries
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Lacma plans to put on show artist's 40-ft-long airship, his last project, this week
Los Angeles-based artist who pushed performances and sculpture to extreme limits and illuminated Lacma
“I was determined that Australians would get to see the very best… these wonderful Caravaggios and Correggios and Titians and Tintorettos”
The shopping-mall entrepreneur and former chairman of Sotheby's, has died, aged 91
Shopping mall tycoon, art collector and auction house owner's eventful life included almost a year in prison<br>
He denounces the German army’s 1990 use of the painting as a recruiting ad as culpable ignorance of the nation’s history: “I claim an unwritten right, the human right to a past”
The man who made the phrase “Live long and prosper” famous was also a dedicated artist and poet
The artist, critic and bon vivant was credited with propelling Jean-Michel Basquiat to fame
His pioneering work brought new aspects of ancient Egyptian art and archaeology to light.
The last surviving child of Baron Alphonse von Rothschild, of the Austrian branch of that family, dies aged 88.
One of the few Italian women to achieve fame in architecture, not least for turning a train station into the Musée d’Orsay
The French musician, museum director, public servant and man of many letters.
Art dealer who forged a successful business in Italy and New York from the 1950s.
Art world remembers a great art dealer, collector and museum founder
In memory of the man behind Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly, James Rosenquist and Roy Lichtenstein
Federico Zeri, an independent mind
A formidable connoisseur, academic and museum director who inspired many top figures in the British art world.
Mumbay Pupal Jayakar, a towering figure of Indian cultural life for the last fifty years, died aged eighty-one in March.
The chocolate magnate both infuriated and stimulated the German art scene for nearly thirty years
Ryoei Saito, chief of the Daishowa Paper Company and Stavros Niarchos, shipping magnate
Aged twenty-five years old, London gallerist Joshua Compston died on Wednesday, 6 March, 1996.
Contributor to Vogue, Harpers and Punch amongst others
Both Giacometti's spouse and favourite subject, Annette's championing of his talent persisted after his passing
Simon's widow has announced that his art collection will remain at the museum in Pasadena
Professor Otto von Simson, the German art historian, died in Berlin at the end of May, aged 80.
Jean Tinguely was born in Fribourg in 1925 and died of a stroke 30 August.