The New York photographer pioneered lighting and developing techniques that helped transformed how Black figures were photographed and seen

Landau, whose discerning eye and aesthetic curiosity made her a fixture in the art world from the 1980s onward, began collecting after receiving an insurance settlement for a jewellery heist at her home

Multi-disciplinary practitioner was inspired by the 1968 Paris demonstrations to organise artist and student group protests during Indira Gandhi's Emergency rule of 1975-77

The sculptor, erudite and irreverent, was known for the power and scale of her site-specific installations

Innovative architect was at heart of rebuilding independent India, a protégé of Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, and winner of the Pritzker Prize and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal

An inspirational teacher, charismatic museum director, Poussin scholar and curator, he was working to the end

Artist who taught Rachel Whiteread and Tacita Dean during a decades-long career at London's Slade School of Art, won critical recognition in her mid-sixties for her massive, site-specific installations

The Wigan-born sculptor became attuned to the modern movement in Europe after making his name with construction-based reliefs and sculptures in Britain

Uruguayan-born architect had an acute understanding of the visual arts and produced prize-winning buildings

Nearly all his more than 600 irregularly-shaped canvases capture aspects of six decades of married life

Lehr was the co-founder of the Continuum women's art collective and used her art to address the challenges of global warming and rising sea levels

After rising to prominence in New York’s AbEx scene of the 1950s, Leslie devoted much of his career to honing a style of monumental figuration that was decades ahead of its time

In a six-decade career, the British artist also composed and performed music, published books and was an expert on African art

The witty Canadian polymath caused a sensation with his 1967 underground film "Wavelength" and enjoyed public dispute over his city sculptures

Social observation was key to the work of the recently rediscovered protégée of Francesco Scavullo and Henri Cartier-Bresson

The gallerist is credited with introducing European audiences to post-war US artists

Feldman, an early supporter of artists like Joseph Beuys and Chris Burden, opened his gallery in 1971 and quickly established himself as a gallerist willing to take risks

The German-born conservative pontiff, a noted theological scholar, tried to accommodate contemporary art but became a subject of satire

The outspoken and original couturier referenced historical costume along with portraiture and campaigned for free access to museums

Martin Parr and Juergen Teller are among the artists who captured the Brazilian star's gift for friendship and personal diplomacy

She confronted censorship issues including a legal battle over Henry Miller novel

The artists Paula Rego and Sam Gilliam, the gallerist Virginia Dwan, the critic Peter Schjeldahl and the patron of the arts John Sainsbury were among the other influential figures lost to the art world this year

Her relationship with her father is the subject of an ongoing exhibition at the Picasso Museum in Paris

Pearlstein, a classmate of Andy Warhol’s who similarly worked against the grain of the dominant Abstract Expressionist style of the time, remained committed to representation from the late 1950s onward

His direct and personal style made him a well-respected chronicler of the US art scene for over 50 years

The Indonesia-based artist, who rose to prominence in New York in the 1980s alongside Jeff Koons and Peter Halley, was diagnosed with ALS last year

Phillips's masterpiece is A Humument, a 50-year recreation, redrawing and rewriting of a long-forgotten Victorian novel, that informed the artist's wider output, including an opera and his translation of Dante's Inferno

Her bookstore Art Catalogues, which she founded in 1977 and is still in operation, has long been a gathering place for the Los Angeles art community

The artist, who rose to prominence in the New York art scene of the 1970s, remained committed to an unclassifiable and otherworldly aesthetic

The world expert on the prints of William Hogarth, James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson was a great and colourful character