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#RealEstatePorn: Warhol’s First NYC Studio Is For Sale. Got $10 Million?

By Trey Speegle on April 3, 2016 8:24 am

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The firehouse as it looked circa '63

The firehouse as it looked circa ’63

OK, not $10 million. $9,975,000.

The UES former firehouse that was Andy Warhol‘s first studio is on the market. 159 East 87th Street, just east of Lexington, is a two-story building that dates from 1910. Art critic Blake Gopnik, who is working on a biography of the artist, told ArtNet News,

“As a successful commercial illustrator, Andy Warhol had spent the previous 13 years working out of his various homes. In 1963, he was only just becoming known as a fine artist, so it’s no wonder he didn’t invest in a fancier studio.“

Warhol was becoming a celebrity himself, both praised and reviled, just six months before debuting his now infamous Campbell’s Soup Can series. Gopnik said,

“The fire house only cost $150 a month, but it was a wreck, with leaks in the roof and holes in the floors, but it was better than trying to make serious paintings in the wood-paneled living-room of his Victorian townhouse, as he’d done for the previous couple of years. Andy moved into the firehouse on January 1, 1963, and his lease on it was terminated the following May —leaving a gap of more than half a year before he moves into the famous Silver Factory.“

Andy & Gerard Malanga on Gerard's first day of work at Warhol's studio at the firehouse, June 11, 1963. (Photo: Edward Wallowitch)

Andy & Gerard Malanga on Gerard’s first day of work at Warhol’s studio at the firehouse, June 11, 1963. (Photo: Edward Wallowitch)

Andy painted some of his most famous and coveted works here like Marilyn, Liz & his Disaster series. The building is ironically now in use as an art storage facility, and realtor Cushman & Wakefield resorted to some artsy language in the listing, saying it,

“offers a developer a blank canvas to create boutique condominiums, a mixed-use rental or a luxury townhouse.”

For rent 50+ years ago for $150 a month; for sale in 2016 for $10 million. An early silkscreen of Warhol’s, like this Triple Elvis maybe a couple thousand in ’63. It sold at auction for almost $82 million. As an artist I’m asking, what’s a better return on your money?

This Triple Elvis (Ferus Type), 1963, sold at Christie's in New York $81.9 million in 2014

This Triple Elvis (Ferus Type), 1963, sold at Christie’s in New York $81.9 million in 2014

(via Artnet News)

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