A Pollock Address Comes Up for Sale Just as the Met Opens Its Pollock and Krasner Show

Jackson Pollock once lived in an apartment in Manhattan's West Village, and that apartment is now listed at $1.99 million. The asking price is the public figure, and it is the one we print. Uptown, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is opening an exhibition that brings Pollock together with Lee Krasner, the painter he was married to. So in the same city and the same season, someone can walk through rooms Pollock knew downtown and then see the canvases at Fifth Avenue. It doesn't happen often that a painter's address goes on the market while a major museum is putting his work up on its walls. Collectors usually buy the picture, and this time the address where a painter lived is the thing for sale. The listing is a residence, not a work of art, and that is why it belongs on these pages: what changes hands in this city sometimes includes the places where its art was made.

With reporting from ARTnews.