Françoise Gilot – The brilliant French artist estimated by Pablo Picasso and Jonas Salk – loved this apartment. And, in fact, the home is where art is.
According to Streeteasy, the great duplex of the missing Gilot, in the heart of the historic district of 67 Street on West 67th Street, has just hit the market for $ 4.3 million.
Gilot, internationally known for his watercolors, ceramics and the best -selling memory “Life with Picasso”, used the Loft cooperative’s house as a live study for decades.
In addition to growing French modernist art, including works such as “Adam Forcing Eve to eat an apple” and the “Labyrinth” series, Gilot was known for his impressive romantic relationships.
Gilot first met Picasso as a 21 -year -old artist who lived in German occupied France. Picasso was 61 years old at that time. The dynamic couple spent almost 10 years together and shared two children. Gilot this time told his 1964 Best Seller “Life with Picasso”. The acclaimed book adapted to the 1996 James Ivory movie “Surviving Picasso”, with Anthony Hopkins.
Gilot married Jonas Salk, the pioneer of the Poliomielitis vaccine, and settled in New York City until his death at 101 in 2023.
This list marks the first time that Gilot’s three bedroom residence on West 67th Street has reached the market. He is selling for his property. The house offers increasing and amazing -looking ceilings with a barrel more than 17 feet high, a wooden fireplace, with large windows facing north and a flexible three to four bedroom design.
The Gilot Duplex is only one of the three units for sale in the building.
The second property, $ 2.5 million from two bedrooms, was also owned by Gilot. He used it as a guest apartment and as a Pied-à-Terre, said that Leslie Hirsch by Christie’s International, which occupies both listings next to Howard L. Morrel.
The third unit is the recent house in contract by the late Peter Yarrow, of the fame of Peter, Paul and Mary. The Yarrow Fifth Duplex House last listed for $ 4.44 million and won an impressive tender war. Its final sale price is not yet known.
The fact that the three listings to 27 W. 67th St. They are real estate sales is no coincidence.
Hirsch said that families usually keep their home quickly. What is amazing, however, is that three units are on the market first.
“The properties of the building are not sold on sale very often,” said Hirsch. “See one or two a year, the maximum.”
The building is one of the various special residences throughout an iconic blog of New York City, known in the historic district of the West 67th Street Artists. The stretch of brick and limestone buildings between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue won the reputation due to its high concentration of artist apartments. Famous residents included the artist Daring “Readymades” Marcel Duchamp and the Normalist Painter Rockwell.
This building, in particular, was founded by a group of ten artists who grouped their money for the 14 -studio cooperative, reported Curbed in 2023.
The building continued to attract generations of artists, thanks to its wide configuration of the open study and large windows facing north, the best light for painting.
It was this feature of the apartment, Hirsch said, which Gilot valued.
“You can be on the balcony and look at your work from various angles,” he said. “This is what her daughter told me, what what she [Gilot] I liked to paint in this apartment.
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