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.

He died aged 87

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

A natural and brilliant teacher, known to all as Shrub

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.

The patron of the arts died aged 84

Jean Tinguely was born in Fribourg in 1925 and died of a stroke 30 August.

The successful art dealer died aged 41