The famed auction house will call the brutalist Breuer Building on the Upper East Side its home in the coming years.
A famed auction house has purchased a famed art museum’s old brutalist home, which will become its flagship location in the coming years.
Once the Frick is back in its East 70th Street compound, “custodianship of The Breuer Building will pass to Sotheby’s,” the release added.The building is currently the temporary home of the Frick.The new space will be less than two blocks from Sotheby’s first American offices at 980 Madison Ave. and several avenues over from its current flagship in a former cigar factory and Kodak warehouse, which it has called home since 1980.
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