Sold the former estate of the late artist Robert Motherwell in Connecticut for $2.5 million.

This month brought the sale of renowned artist Robert Motherwell's former Connecticut estate for $2.5 million. Christie's International Real Estate announced the news in a press release Thursday.

The house, located at 909 North Street in Greenwich, was built in 1900. This ten-bedroom, six-bathroom estate is set on a four-acre lot with a pond and landscaping designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, who worked on Central Park in New York City, the Greenwich Times reports.

In the house, Motherwell placed different studios for different types of creativity (painting, collage, printmaking) in an area of 1,235 square meters.

The artist first moved to Greenwich in 1970 and lived on the property until his death in 1991.

After officially divorcing fellow artist Helen Frankenthaler in 1971, Motherwell began living here permanently. He had previously lived in France and Spain, where he was inspired by political events such as the Spanish Civil War, which he reflected in his series of paintings Elegy to the Spanish Republic (1948-1967).

Mazerwell was an American abstractionist painter and one of the youngest members of the New York School, which also included artists such as Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko.

Mazerwell's paintings are prominent works in the permanent collections of major museums such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Guggenheim Museum, the Tate in London, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and others.

In 1981, Motherwell founded the Dedalus Foundation, which aims to support "public understanding of contemporary art" through tuition scholarships and awards for graduating high school seniors.