Frank Stella, a painter's painter and one of the leading abstract artists of his generation, has died, aged 87

The gallery paid tribute to how Stella's 'extraordinary, perpetually evolving oeuvre investigated the formal and narrative possibilities of geometry and colour and the boundaries between painting and objecthood.' 'It has been a great honour to work with Frank for this past decade,' Marianne Boesky said. 'His is a remarkable legacy.'

In the 1970s he turned to making relief paintings which grew gradually more complex. 'The relief paintings forced me to go out and get involved in the real world,' he told The Art Newspaper in 1999.

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