The Rothschilds
In the former studio of John Singer Sargent, Sir Evelyn and Lady de Rothschild have built their London “love nest”—a house stocked with artworks old and new.
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The living room, which was once John Singer Sargent’s studio space, with Luc Tuymans’s Shirt (1999) above the fireplace.
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The dining room, with a Waldo Story sculpture in the foreground and Josef Albers’s Homage to the Square (1966) above the fireplace.
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The breakfast room, with a Rodin on a pedestal.
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Barbara Hepworth’s Pierced Form (Toledo) (1957).
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The Rothschilds commissioned this Bill Viola piece, Divine Light (2006), which hangs above a Louis XVI commode. Based on Wagner’s opera Tristan and Isolde, the video is a slow-motion underwater scene depicting Isolde reuniting with her lover in death.
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Howard Hodgkin’s After Vuillard 2002 in a Sir Evelyn’s study.
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The exterior of the house.
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Sir Evelyn and Lady de Rothschild.
