{"id":11864,"date":"2025-10-22T12:22:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/11864\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T12:22:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:22:23","slug":"the-manhattan-home-of-late-sculptor-joel-shapiro-lists-for-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/11864\/","title":{"rendered":"The Manhattan Home of Late Sculptor Joel Shapiro Lists for $5 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWhen 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 Manhattan<\/a> home he shared with his painter wife, Ellen Phelan, has hit the market for\u00a0$4.75 million<\/a>. Eileen Angelo and Max Collins of Sotheby\u2019s International Realty hold the listing.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe duplex, tucked inside a 1907 building on East 67th Street in Lenox Hill<\/a>, 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\u2014done in the \u201990s but still timeless\u2014introduced beveled glass casement doors, brass hardware, and a sweeping staircase that feels almost like one of Shapiro\u2019s own pieces brought to life.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: An Art World Couple\u2019s Longtime Compound in the Hamptons Lists for $8 Million<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Joel<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tA 20-foot tall expanse of leaded glass adds light and character to the double-height great room.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMW Studio for Sotheby\u2019s International Realty<\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere on the main floor is a south-facing library with a fireplace, a dedicated home office, and a corner guest bedroom with a private bath. The entire second floor has been transformed into a grand primary suite that\u2019s complete with a mezzanine that overlooks the living room, a bedroom with a fireplace, a separate sitting\/dressing room, two walk-in closets, a large bathroom, and a spacious laundry room.<\/p>\n

\n\tShapiro, born in Queens in 1941, remained fiercely loyal to New York City<\/a> throughout his career, maintaining a studio in Long Island City even as his work appeared in museums and public spaces around the world. (His largest piece stands outside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.) Phelan, an acclaimed painter, often explored themes of domesticity and place in her own work, which is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Artist Ed Ruscha\u2019s Onetime L.A. Compound Just Listed for $4.6 Million<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Joel<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tThe primary suite spans the entire second floor.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMW Studio for Sotheby\u2019s International Realty<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Italian Renaissance-style building, designed by architect Charles A. Platt while at the firm of Rossiter and Wright, has long been a haven for creative minds. Over the decades, it\u2019s housed everyone from a Rockefeller heir to design legends Massimo and Lella Vignelli, who created New York\u2019s iconic subway map. For Shapiro and Phelan, it offered both proximity to the city\u2019s cultural heart and a private, light-filled refuge above it all.<\/p>\n

\n\tTheir creative life, however, wasn\u2019t confined to Manhattan. The couple also owned a lakeside estate in Westport, New York. Another work of art in its own right, the Prairie-style property, known as\u00a0Kenjockety<\/a>, sits on the shore of Lake Champlain and was their retreat from city life. There, amid 1,400 feet of waterfront and gardens designed by landscape architect Dan Kiley, they restored a 1910 home into a serene, art-filled sanctuary. That property is also currently on the market\u2014first listed this summer for $5.49 million, now asking $4.8 million.<\/p>\n

\n\tClick here<\/a> to see more photos of the New York City apartment.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Joel<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMW Studio for Sotheby\u2019s International Realty<\/p>\n

\tAuthors<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\"Abby<\/p>\n

\n\t\tAbby Montanez\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Abigail Montanez is a staff writer at Robb Report. She has worked in both print and digital publishing for over half a decade, covering everything from real estate, entertainment, dining, travel to\u2026<\/p>\n

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