Hamptons House Down the Street from Jackson Pollock’s Former Home Lists for $11.5 Million

A contemporary Hamptons home on the same street as the home of the late American painter Jackson Pollock strike the marketplace Thursday for $11.5 million.

The 4.63-acre home is in the Springs Historic District of the Hamptons, the affluent retreat at the jap edge of New York’s Extended Island. The four-bedroom, 4-rest room dwelling overlooks the Accabonac Harbor and a shielded estuary—the identical see that Pollock and his artist spouse Lee Krasner enjoyed—according to Sotheby’s Global Realty’s Jenny Landey, who shares the listing with Zack Dayton, also of Sotheby’s.

“It’s steeped in artwork record,” Ms. Landey explained. “[It] is up from the Pollock-Krasner Residence. It is that look at that you see that’s been painted for many years. It’s the quintessential view—just type of the light-weight, the nature and the land.” 

Abstract expressionist painters Pollock and Krasner shared a dwelling and innovative house in the location for a lot more than 10 years, with Krasner living and doing the job there component time for near to 30 much more. The artist few moved to the area in 1945, and their previous home now operates as the Pollock-Krasner Home and Study Middle, featuring reveals and a peek into the artists’ lives to the general public.

Designed in 1974 by Hamilton Smith, a associate of contemporary architect Marcel Breuer, the contemporary home presently for sale has a cypress facade and delivers an open up structure with wood and flooring-to-ceiling windows through, in accordance to the listing. It also capabilities an expansive deck with 180-diploma vistas for observing the h2o at sunset or the regional osprey inhabitants, walking paths and a guest cottage.

The assets is basically two parcels being offered collectively, Ms. Landey famous. The contemporary household is on the waterfront facet, and the house could not be constructed so near to the harbor these days mainly because the eco-friendly room is guarded. The inland parcel, on the other hand, could be an opportunity for a purchaser to build new and build a compound. 

The household is presently owned by landscape architect Edwina von Gal, who ordered the house in 2003 for $895,000, according to documents with PropertyShark. She was not immediately accessible for remark. 

Since it is owned by a landscape designer of this sort of notice, it is no shock that the grounds have been planted with flowering trees and vegetation, as very well as veggies.

“The organic things and the gardens, in addition to the water… it’s just stunning,” Ms. Landey mentioned. “We suspect that the customer of this home  will perceive it as a perform of artwork.”