Long before his drip paintings changed modern art, Jackson Pollock was a 20-year-old student finding his feet in Manhattan. The small top-floor flat where he lived in 1932 has now come on the market, and Vanity Fair Italia has taken a look inside this quiet piece of art history in the West Village.
Where a young artist found his way
Pollock moved into 46 Carmine Street in 1932, sharing the space with his brother Charles while both studied under the American painter Thomas Hart Benton. According to ELLE Decor, Charles’s wife Elizabeth lived there too, and the brothers used the rooms as a studio as well as a home. It was years before Pollock became a household name, a period when he was still experimenting and searching for his own style.
The flat sits at the top of a Federal-style brick townhouse built in 1827, between Bedford and Bleecker Streets. The listing describes it as an “urban treehouse”: skylights fill the rooms with light, the ceilings reach about 14 feet, and exposed brick and a decorative fireplace keep the period character. A loft upstairs could serve as a studio or office, and residents share a garden with a grill.
A building with many lives
The townhouse has reinvented itself many times. In the 1850s a milliner sold hats and bonnets on the ground floor, in the 1930s artists lived and worked upstairs, and in 2010 it was protected as part of the Greenwich Village Historic District. A recent renovation updated the kitchen and bathroom while keeping the quirks that give the home its personality.
The current owner, technology entrepreneur Fergus Hurley, told Realtor.com that the flat became a place to experiment and create. During lockdown he painted a large Pollock-inspired canvas in the shared garden, now hung in a custom frame shaped like the roofline. It is not part of the sale but can be bought separately. The flat itself is listed with Shane Boyle of Compass for $1.99 million.
Pollock and Krasner at The Met
The sale comes as The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York presents Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous, open until 31 January 2027. It brings together more than 120 works by Pollock and the painter Lee Krasner, his wife and artistic partner, and is the first major New York show devoted to either artist in over 20 years.
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Sources: Vanity Fair Italia, “Jackson Pollock, in vendita l’appartamento dove ha vissuto nel West Village” (25 October 2026); Compass listing for 46 Carmine Street, Unit 4; ELLE Decor, “Jackson Pollock’s Onetime West Village Loft Lists for Nearly $2 Million” (30 September 2026); Realtor.com; The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Featured image: AI-generated illustration, not a photograph of the apartment.
