{"id":142208,"date":"2025-08-13T11:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/142208\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T11:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:05:16","slug":"for-9-5m-rothkos-former-home-and-studio-could-be-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/142208\/","title":{"rendered":"For $9.5M, Rothko’s Former Home and Studio Could Be Yours"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Rothko\u2019s former apartment and studio in Manhattan\u2019s Lenox Hill, where he created the paintings for his renowned Rothko Chapel in Texas, is back on the market.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sotheby\u2019s Realty is asking $9.5 million for the red-brick converted carriage house at 157 East 69th Street, according to a listing.<\/a> Built in 1884 by German-American architect William Schickel, the three-story landmarked Romanesque Revival building originally served as a private equestrian training space before it became Rothko\u2019s home studio during the peak of his creative output in the 1960s.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"Mark Rothko\u2019s former residence in Lenox Hill (photo Maya Pontone\/Hyperallergic)<\/p>\n

The artist created numerous works in the space, marked by its natural light and dramatic atrium, including the series of dark, meditative canvases that currently reside in the non-denominational Rothko Chapel founded in Houston by John and Dominique de Menil. Last year, three of the paintings in the chapel were damaged<\/a> by roof leaks that occurred during Hurricane Beryl.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe [Lenox Hill] studio had a skylight, and Rothko used a pulley system to work on the large-scale canvases in that space,\u201d Will Davison, a spokesperson for the Rothko Chapel, told Hyperallergic. The building\u2019s atrium elements would later inspire the artist to incorporate a skylight into the structure.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe studio was chosen to model the chapel, which in turn was modeled on the studio,\u201d the artist\u2019s son Christopher Rothko told PaperCity Magazine<\/a> in 2015.<\/p>\n

\"\"Rothko Chapel interior and benches (\u00a9 Paul Hester; courtesy Rothko Chapel)<\/p>\n

Rothko also created his Untitled (Black on Grey)<\/a> (1969\u201370) series in the space, his last body of work before his death<\/a> by suicide in 1970 at the age of 66. Visual expressions of the artist\u2019s mental and physical state at the time, the paintings<\/a> are distinguished by their desolate composition and somber palettes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 69th Street property, which has been on the market twice since 2023<\/a>, is currently divided into two units, one of which is occupied by the Urasenke Chanoyu Center, a traditional Japanese tea nonprofit that operates on the ground floor. The Sotheby\u2019s listing only applies to the private residence, but a buyout clause that is due in 12 years per a common tenant agreement could allow a buyer to gain full ownership, Elle Decor<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

\"\"Mark Rothko in his studio with replica chapel walls construction (\u00a9 1964 Hans Namuth, photo by Hans Namuth; courtesy the Estate of Mark Rothko)<\/p>\n

\"\"The property features a glass-enclosed terrace, multiple wood-burning fireplaces, and an authentic tea room. (photo by Yale Wagner, courtesy Sotheby\u2019s International Realty)<\/p>\n

\"\"The property, which is divided into two parts, includes a landscaped rooftop terrace. (photo by Yale Wagner, courtesy Sotheby\u2019s International Realty)<\/p>\n

\"\"The residence is where the painter made a large output of work, including some of his final paintings. (photo by Yale Wagner, courtesy Sotheby\u2019s International Realty)\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Rothko\u2019s former apartment and studio in Manhattan\u2019s Lenox Hill, where he created the paintings for his renowned…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,1033,171,58271,405,84587,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-142208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-mark-rothko","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-rothko-chapel","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115021134463246971","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}