Obituaries

Brice Marden, whose elegant fusion of minimalism and Abstract Expressionism in the 1960s revivified painting and established him as one of the most admired and influential artists of his generation, died on Thursday at his home in Tivoli, N.Y., in Dutchess County. He was

Park Seo-Bo, a painter whose elegantly furrowed monochromes and indefatigable drive made him a pillar of the Korean art world, died on Oct. 14 in Seoul. He was 91. His son Park Seungho said the cause was cardiopulmonary arrest, adding that his father had

Norman Ackroyd, who has died aged 86, was the outstanding etcher of his generation, renowned for creating images of spectacular British landscapes that he produced with breathtaking technical mastery. To do so he undertook a remarkable series of journeys in search of landscapes of

François Duret-Robert (born in 1932) died in Paris on 13 October at the age of 92. He was a ground-breaking figure in the French art market, as a journalist, editor, teacher and legal specialist. Having studied mathematics and political science at the prestigious l’Institut