Annie Leibovitz is selling her two Manhattan apartments for $15.8 million.

Photographer Annie Leibovitz is set to touch down in Madrid to take one of her famous portraits of the kings of Spain. At the same time, his New York real estate agents are looking for buyers for his two Manhattan apartments.

To the artist, 74 years oldthey outgrew their family home into Upper West Side. He put it up for sale in October for $8.6 million (€7.86 million) no success, for now. And now he has just put his studio apartment up for sale in West Village To $8.5 million (€7.9 million).

These two properties are very different from each other. first This spacious apartment in a building built before World War II with high ceilings, wood floors and traditional moldings. view of Central Park.

second This is an apartment two modern design bedroomswith low ceilings, gray stone floors and large steel windows overlooking Hudson River. In the latter case, the photographer expects to make a profit of $2 million in two years; With the first, she is ready to lose almost three million, having occupied it for ten years.

IN 2014, paid $11.3 million for a stately duplex in that 88 Central Park Westwhere he lived next door to other artists such as singers Sting And Paul Simon, actor Robert De Niro and Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels.

In addition to its privileged location in front of the park, the interior is built into 1910 All original parts are present. Among them arched entrance gallery doors, coffered dining room ceiling and decorative fireplace in the spacious living room, as well as large wooden staircase leading to the upper level where the master bedroom is located.

He Village studiolocated in 495 West Street, kept it for only two years. Leibovitz bought it in 2022 for $6.5 million and he’s now selling it for $8.5 million, thanks to the revaluation the area has experienced thanks to millionaires looking for a good location and tranquility.

The residence has direct access from the elevator to an area of ​​almost 1000 square meters.. Inside there are two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a toilet and Spacious common areas overlooking the Lower Manhattan River. There is also a wood-burning fireplace, heated floors, a bar and a large library.

The 2013 Prince of Asturias Prize for Communication and Humanities winner, 74, decided to get rid of the family home because the apartment became “too big” after her three daughters became adults and decided to “build their own lives,” Leibovitz explained to The New York Times.

a house overlooking Central Park was very useful to her when raising her daughters, Sarah (22) and twins Susan and Samuel (18) because the park was a “girls’ yard” where they rode bikes and skated. “One of them walked across it every day to go to school,” he added.

The photographer’s intention is to live in another “family home” located in a prosperous city Rhinebeck, on the banks of the Hudson River, upstate New York.which became the setting for many of his famous photographs.

Real estate an old mansion with pointed towers, built in 1915. Golden Age architect H.Arry T. Lindebergfor the millionaire businessman and philanthropist Vincent Astor. Leibovitz paid for it $2.3 million in 1996 and later $635,000 for adjacent lot.

Thanks to his good outlook on the real estate industry, Leibowitz managed to overcome the worst economic downturn of his life. In 2009, she was on the verge of being evicted by creditors after racking up more than $24 million in debt..

He saved the crisis by selling his old house in the city area. Village of Greenwich To David Lauren, son of designer Ralph Laurenand his wife, Lauren BushTo $28.5 million.

He Bank of Spain to pay 135,000 euros For two portraits of kings formal dresses for your private collection. Thus, Felipe VI and Letizia will join the list of personalities such as Queen Elizabeth II, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Mick Jagger or Richard Nixonwho posed for a prestigious photographer.