The New Yorker's collaboration with the artist Sophie Calle was just one way in which art was interlaced with his life and work

Strong sell-through rate and multiple artist records offset soft demand for top lots

The four works, spanning nearly 40 years of the Abstract Expressionist’s career, will hit the auction block at Sotheby’s in May

Former trader Christian Levett's rebranded institution will present works by Joan Mitchell, Howardena Pindell and Cecily Brown among others

The late abstract artist’s foundation claims Louis Vuitton used Mitchell’s work in a campaign without permission

Plus, Joan Mitchell and Claude Monet at the Fondation Louis Vuitton and England's Tudors head to New York

Exhibition on the Abstract Expressionist includes little-known paintings and explores the influence of poetry on her work

New publications cast a light on two formidable women artists and place them at the heart of Abstract Expressionism

Coinciding with the auction house's New York sale room re-opening in June, the sale marks the first time female artists will comprise over two-thirds of the value of an evening auction

The Baltimore Museum of Art and SFMoMA are co-organising the show, which looks at the person and process behind the abstract works