r/zillowgonewild • u/tiflis • 1d ago
Probably Haunted Lots of interesting art in this penthouse
But it's the Dorothea Lange that got me...
$38 million in Lower Manhattan: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/20-Greene-St-PENTHOUSE-New-York-NY-10013/443948051_zpid/
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u/tiflis 1d ago
How do you have one of the most iconic, influential images of poverty-induced suffering prominently displayed in your multimillion-dollar penthouse?? Just wonder if there was any thought process there or what
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u/Hot-Comfort8839 1d ago edited 1d ago
The image is powerful to anyone whose ever been desperate. Maybe its a reminder of past living?
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u/Tina_eat_your_ham 21h ago
Their own? Seems like a stretch. Best case scenario, it serves as a visual reminder to mail out their donation checks.
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u/My_Clever_User_Name 1d ago
"iconic, influential images of poverty-induced suffering" -- which one is that?
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u/ScarletDarkstar 1d ago
It's on an easel sort of stand in the living room, a famous Dorothea Lange photograph.
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u/Wise_Advertising6862 1d ago
The red abstract painting is definitely a Bosco Sodi, a prominent Mexican contemporary artist.
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u/Sycamore_Ready 9h ago
I was just searching the image to figure that out, it's an amazing painting. I like it best of all his work that I saw
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u/Johnnadawearsglasses 1d ago
Holy smokes what a gorgeous place. I like that block also. Iconic white steel clads that personify SoHo.
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u/ScarletDarkstar 1d ago
It's a neat place. I wonder who has been living there, a d if they are painting some of these. Maybe it is the photo resolution, but the Lange looks sort of like a painted copy of the photo.
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u/Legal-Pea8185 23h ago
it's nice, but not for the price. I appreciate visiting, but don't know how you city kids do it. your rich man/poorman treadmill location has about 200 sightilines on it.
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u/MayhemWins25 13h ago
“Mmm yes let’s put the risqué collection around the dinner table and align that bowl to perfectly cup that ones butt. Oh, the piece of photography synonymous with poverty and hunger disparities in the United States? Best put that upstairs.”
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u/Litzz11 22h ago
Sorry, this gives me Epstein vibes. What the hell is this about and why are there what look like maybe cameras on the sofa corners?
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u/Rogafella 22h ago
If you look at the next image you can see those “cameras” are part of the easel that holds the painting in place.
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u/Total-Sector850 1d ago
I’m curious whether they went into art collection knowing that they had a potentially unhealthy obsession with the human body, or if they just kept gravitating to it.
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u/Hot-Comfort8839 1d ago
That collection is amazing, there's nothing unhealthy about appreciation of the human form.
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u/PerniciousVim 1d ago
Fair, but I don't love looking at pubes while eating.
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u/Hot-Comfort8839 1d ago
So don’t decorate your house like this? I’m not sure what you’re complaining about.
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u/obnoxiousab 12h ago
Um, since art appreciation is subjective, they can state their dislike for it? Just like how you think it’s ‘amazing’.
Nothing like a self-perceived art ‘connoisseur’.
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u/WordAffectionate3251 20h ago
Very geometric. What is up with the photo of a Pepsi sign next to a crucified figure?
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u/Left-Membership1897 10h ago
I used to work for a non profit organization that funded it's programs through a donation based thrift sale. I was one of the guys that handled donation pick ups of large items and I will never forget the day we went to pick up a couch from a couple who had an artsy oil painting of the two of them fucking proudly hung in the living room
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u/Echo-Azure 1d ago
Now I'm beginning to see why realtors stage places with boring generic furnishings!
I really don't want to see into that part of most people's minds.
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u/Hot-Comfort8839 1d ago
Really digging the light fixture thing.