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

Known for toggling between works rooted in painting and more sprawling sculptures and installations, he was always concerned with the histories of objects and materials

Art world figures pay tribute to "one of the most inventive printmakers"

Falckenberg, one of Germany’s most important private art collectors, once said he was drawn to “outsiders and freaks"

A leading figure in the Dansaekhwa movement, he had a profound influence on the teaching of painting and the administration of art studies

A survivor of cancer and an illegal abortion, McNeely channelled her experiences into very personal work

The American artist was long associated with the feminist art movement but resented the label, preferring to form her own critical iconography

The father of the Dansaekhwa movement was known for monochrome works with roots in Buddhist philosophy

Botero re-imagined art historical motifs but also responded to current events, including a series of visceral paintings in response to the Abu Ghraib torture scandal