"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

The dealer, who died in Paris “after a brief illness”, represented many of the most ambitious contemporary artists of the past half-century

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

The New Yorker's collaboration with the artist Sophie Calle was just one way in which art was interlaced with his life and work

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

A scion of the famous banking dynasty, he led the National Gallery, the Heritage Lottery Fund and Waddesdon Manor

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’

Italian artist, who won Venice’s Golden Lion award in 1990, is subject of a Guggenheim Bilbao retrospective next year

The sculptor, who was committed to civil rights, recently completed a monument to Emmett Till

Martin Parr and Magnum colleagues remember the renowned American street photographer, who has died at age 95

Art world figures including Nicolas Bourriaud pay tribute

Kissinger, one of the most photographed men of his time, with an instantly recognisable pair of spectacles, was a powerful graphic gift to artists including Philip Guston

The pastel double-portrait of President Jimmy Carter's recently deceased wife was drawn by Robert Clark Templeton