Hedda Sterne is one of those artists who has faded into the backdrop of our collective cultural consciousness. A worthy artist in her own right, Stern is perhaps best known for marrying fellow Romanian luminary Saul Steinberg, whose half-century of New Yorker illustrations solidified the publication's legacy.

While Stern and Steinberg separated, they never divorced, and the townhouse they shared together on the Upper East Side has just been sold by Sterne's estate, city records show. Sterne died last summer at the age of 100, one of the last surviving artists from the Abstract Expressionist era. Read More