Art collector and philanthropist Beth Rudin DeWoody is asking $12 million for the Manhattan apartment where she has lived for more than 30 years.
On the Upper East Side a few blocks from Gracie Mansion, the apartment is across the street from Carl Schurz Park and overlooks the East River. "I grew up in the neighborhood," said Ms. DeWoody, the 66-year-old daughter of New York real-estate magnate Lewis Rudin. She spent her early childhood living in a Rudin-owned building a block away, and has lived in this apartment since 1987.
Located at 10 Gracie Square, a pre-war cooperative building which has been home to high-profile residents like Gloria Vanderbilt and Madame Chiang Kai-shek, the roughly 5,000-square-foot apartment has four bedrooms, said Maria Serena Torresy of Brown Harris Stevens, who is listing the apartment with colleague Cathy Angert. Large windows in the living room reveal boats on the river and the Roosevelt Island lighthouse. French doors in the dining room, which seats 16, lead out to a balcony. A staff wing contains two maids’ rooms and a bathroom.
Nearly every surface in the apartment is covered with pieces from Ms. DeWoody’s collection of contemporary art, including works by Willem de Kooning, Richard Avedon and Cy Twombly. Ms. DeWoody, a longtime trustee of the Whitney Museum of American Art, said her collection said numbers about 10,000 pieces. The art isn’t for sale.
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Ms. DeWoody has lived in the apartment since the late 1980s, when she hired architect Alan Wanzenberg to renovate it, adding a bathroom tiled in bold green. Later, she turned two closets into "cabinets of curiosities," with shelving to display small pieces of art.
Ms. DeWoody married her third husband, photographer Firooz Zahedi, in 2012, and the couple decided to buy a home in Los Angeles. They are selling because they are now spending more time in Los Angeles, where Ms. DeWoody’s children now live. Ms. DeWoody said after the apartment is sold, she will likely get a rental apartment in one of her family’s New York buildings.
Ms. DeWoody said she also has a home in West Palm Beach, Fla., where she founded an art space.
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