When you think of great New York artists, few names loom larger than the late Joel Shapiro. The celebrated sculptor, whose angular, gravity-defying figures are icons of modern art, spent his life exploring form, balance, and the spaces in between. Now, just months after his passing at 83, the home he shared with his painter wife, Ellen Phelan, has hit the market for . Eileen Angelo and Max Collins of Sotheby’s International Realty hold the listing.

The duplex, tucked inside a 1907 building on East 67th Street in , is every bit as striking as you might expect from a couple so steeped in art and architecture. The couple purchased the apartment in the early 2000s and immediately reimagined it from the ground up. Their renovation—done in the ’90s but still timeless—introduced beveled glass c

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