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Anton van Dalen, who imaginatively chronicled life in Lower Manhattan, has died, aged 86

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An East Village fixture for a half-century, Van Dalen created stylised drawings, paintings, sculptures and performances documenting his surroundings

Age 321
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Joe Average, Canadian artist and Aids activist, has died, aged 67

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Known for his bold, bright-hued paintings, prints and murals, Average was a pilar of Vancouvers creative community

Age 290
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Walter Robinson, sharp-eyed painter and critic, has died, aged 74

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Robinson, one of the Pictures Generation artists, made brightly irreverent paintings; as a writer, he chronicled the New York scene for decades and coined the term Zombie Formalism

Age 278
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A painting of Venice’s Grand Canal, previously thought to be by Canaletto, has been attributed to his teenage nephew

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Specialists at London's Wallace Collection have attributed an 18th-century work to Bernardo Bellotto, who would then have been aged just 15 or 16

Age 305
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Mel Bochner, conceptual artist known for text paintings and wry humour, has died, aged 84

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Bochner was a pioneer of conceptual art, creating works rooted in information systems and decontextualised language

Age 282
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Benjamin Vautier, a French Fluxus artist known for his playful painted phrases, has died, aged 88

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His irreverent texts, signed simply “Ben”, spanned art and merchandise that was ubiquitous in France

Age 290
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Jo Baer, painter who pivoted from abstraction to ‘radical figuration’, has died, aged 95

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Baer was equally renowned for her work in Minimalist abstraction and figurative painting

Age 264