Renowned gallerist Marian Goodman has died, aged 97

"Over a 60-year career, Goodman cultivated a venerable reputation for showing challenging, subtle and conceptually ambitious art that often resisted the lure of commercial tastes. Her New York-headquartered gallery has represented some of the world's most acclaimed artists, including Gerhard Richter, Nan Goldin, Anselm Kiefer, Julie Mehretu, William Kentridge and Nairy Bagrahmian."

"She was described in a 2004 profile as "one of the most powerful and influential dealers of the 20th century", whose gallery "gives the art world rare jolts of self-esteem". She is quoted by her gallery's in memoriam statement as having once said: "It is among the artists whose work I like that I have found the qualities I value from my own experience: a humanistic concern, a culture-critical sense of our way of life, a dialectical approach to reality and an artistic vision about civic life.""

Marian Goodman died on 22 January at age 97, passing peacefully of natural causes. Over six decades she cultivated a reputation for showing challenging, subtle and conceptually ambitious art that often resisted commercial tastes. Her New York gallery represented leading contemporary figures including Gerhard Richter, Nan Goldin, Anselm Kiefer, Julie Mehretu, William Kentridge and Nairy Bagrahmian. She was noted for intellectual rigour, loyalty to her artists and professional discretion and was widely regarded as a powerful, influential dealer. Born Marian Ruth Geller in 1928, she was introduced to art by her collector father, studied art history at Columbia, co-founded a publishing business and opened her first gallery in 1977 with work by Marcel Broodthaers, whom she had first encountered at Documenta in 1968.

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