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The large oil painting in the master bedroom is of a
Parisian girl at her toilette by Reginald Grooms (1900-
1989). The bookcase is filled with bibelots from the
owners’ previous Victorian home, including a French
bronze by Denys Puech (1854-1942), Le Syrene, 1920;
and a Benin bronze of a seated queen figure with
child, circa 1950s.9
The large painting on the lower right of the red
lacquered powder room is an Indian painting by Joseph
Henry Sharp (1859-1953). Directly opposite is an 1860
view of the Hudson River Valley by Thomas Cole (1801-
1848). In the hallway on the upper left is a lithograph,
Photographing the Bull, 1970, by Thomas Hart Benton
(1889-1965). Beneath it is a 2001 photograph of smoke
rings by Donald Sultan. At the bottom right is an oil and
mixed media portrait by Edgar Yaeger. Next to it is a
portrait plate by Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988).10
Sitting on the chest of drawers in the master bedroom
is a painted steel Falling Man sculpture, 1964, by Ernest
Trova. On the facing wall are, left to right, a 1939 oil
painting of a Mexican woman by Grace Martin Taylor
(1903-1995) and an oil painting of three Jamaican
women, 1934, by Reginald Grooms (1900-1989). On the
left wall is a Taylor oil painting of Marguerite Smoking,
1943, and a carved wood African mask, circa 1950s.11
Beneath the stairs are Nacho Rodriguez Bach’s painted
fiberglass pool balls, #8, #4 & #3, 2015. On the near wall
is Alan Rath’s electronic A Million a Day, 2007. On the far
wall is Thomas Bacher’s acrylic and luminous paint work
Times Square with Taxi, 1998. The painting to the right
is David Rodman’s oil Bird/Plane, 1995. In the center of
gallery is one of six Donald Judd (1928-1994) stained
plywood chairs, 1991. 89