Monument, London Larry Kirkland – Garden Wreath (installation, Portland, Oregon) Gabriel Koren - El-Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X placed at the Audobon Ballroom in Manhattan, New York City Sarah Lucas – Bunny Gets Snookered (installation, including Pauline Bunny) Ron Mueck – Dead Dad, Angel, Big Baby II and III, Man in a Sheet and Mask (Self Portrait) (sculptures) Odd NerdrumThe Savior of PaintingSelf-Portrait in Golden CapeCornelia ParkerMass (Colder Darker Matter) (installation)The Negative of Whispers (sculpture of found material)Pornographic DrawingsMartin Puryear – Bearing Witness (sculpture, Washington, D.C.) Gillian Wearing – 10–16'' (video) Deaths January to June January 23 – Jeremy Maas, English art dealer and historian of Victorian painting (b. 1928). January 25 – Dan Barry, American cartoonist (b. 1923) February 2 – Theodoros Stamos, Greek American abstract expressionist painter (b.1922). March 7 – Martin Kippenberger, German artist (b.1953). March 11 – Sam Golden, paint maker (b.1915). March 15 – Victor Vasarely, Hungarian-French artist (b.1906). March 19 – Willem de Kooning, Dutch born American abstract expressionist painter (b.1904). April 16 – Roland Topor, French illustrator, painter, writer and filmmaker (b.1938). April 20 – Jean Louis, French costume designer (b.1907). April 22 – Reg Gammon, English painter and illustrator (b.1894) May 23 – James Lee Byars, American artist (b.1932). July to December July 15 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer, murdered (b.1946). July 16 – Dora Maar, French photographer, poet and painter, lover of Pablo Picasso (b.1907). August 4 – Tom Eckersley, English poster artist (b.1914) September 6 – Jean-Pierre Sudre, French photographer (b.1921) September 29 – Roy Lichtenstein, American pop artist (b.1923). October 22 – Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator and animation director (b.1905). October 23 – Claire Falkenstein, American sculptor and painter (b.1908). November 26 - Philip Berman, art collector, philanthropist, and co-founder of the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum at Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania (b. 1915 December 16 – Lillian Disney, American artist and wife of Walt Disney (b.1899). Full date unknown Jean Pierre Capron, French painter (b.1921). References Years of the 20th century in art 1990s in art