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Filthy rich: Wealthy collectors of X-rated art turn off NYC home buyers

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Steven Gottlieb, an agent with Coldwell Banker Warburg, quickly neutered the issue.“Not only were the subject’s genitals on full display, right at eye level, but the painting was gory as well,” said Gottlieb. “I’m sure it was a metaphor for something, but that’s a conversation for another day, likely for an art critic, and not for a real estate agent.”He situated a plant in a tall vase in front of the painting’s shvantz and eventually sold the 724-square-foot, one-bedroom condo for $875,000.Of course, the sheet or plant trick only works if the seller is on board.

Otherwise, agents are stuck trying to explain the explicit. Just ask Rob Drag of Premier Sotheby’s International Realty. In 2020, he was tasked with selling an artist’s 7,000-square-foot risqué retreat in Lincolnton, NC.The painter, Donna Downey, had decked out the living room of her seven-bedroom home with floor-to-ceiling depictions of sex positions, orgies and genitalia.

Drag wasn’t allowed to remove them or cover them up and it took longer than usual to close the nearly $1 million deal.“Believe it or not, there were even racier paintings that the seller removed prior to showings,” said Drag, “When agents and buyers questioned why they were being asked to look at such lewdness, she’d simply said: ‘Because it’s art.’ ”.

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