Agnes Gund
Overflowing with contemporary masterpieces, philanthropist and art-world icon Agnes Gund’s newly redesigned Park Avenue abode gives new meaning to the term “art house.”
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Agnes Gund in her living room, with her Wheaten Terriers, Giotto and Tina.
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Roy Lichtenstein’s Masterpiece, 1962, above an antique English mahogony table and chairs in Gund’s dining room. The rug is on loan.
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In the living room, Jasper Johns’s Map, 1963, above a banquette designed by decorator Kristen McGinnis. To the left, an assortment of 11th-century Shang bronze vessels and, in the dining room, Sigmar Polke’s Der Arm, 1994. Eyre de Lanux horsehair-upholstered chairs flank a Jean-Charles Moreux oak coffee table, and, in the foreground, a Pierre Chareau walnut table is surrounded by a pair of Jean-Michel Frank cerused-oak chairs.
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Brice Marden’s Epitaph Painting 2, 1996–97, in the dining room.
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Louise Bourgeois’s Pillar, 1949–50, stands in the foreground; to the left is Mark Rothko’s Two Greens With Red Stripe, 1964, with Christo’s sculpture Nine Packed Bottles, 1965, below it. Sol LeWitt’s 21 A, 1989, hangs from the dining room ceiling.
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Robert Rauschenberg’s Rhyme, 1956, with a Ming console in the dining room; to the right is an African Djenné sculpture.
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Cai Guo-Qiang’s gunpowder drawing Wolf and Lion, 2005, in the entrance gallery, next to figures from Nigeria and Mali.
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In Gund’s bedroom, Gerhard Richter’s Horst With Dog, 1965, above a Ming table.
