Elie Hirschfeld Gives The New Yorker a Home Tour

Elie Hirschfeld offered a preview tour of his collection to The New Yorker, while the works are still displayed throughout his Manhattan home. In October, the works will go on view at the New-York Historical Society, where they’ve been donated.

“Paintings hung on walls and reclined on couches, like guests,” wrote Sarah Larson, who notes the strong architectural themes of the collection. A snowy scene of small-town Brooklyn, done by Francis Guy in 1818, welcomes visitors in the entryway, while a fifteen-foot mural of Seventh Avenue, done by Red Grooms in 1967, adorns the living room. A painting by Edward Hopper of the Waldorf-Astoria, four takes of the Brooklyn Bridge by Andy Warhol, and a tabletop mobile by Alexander Calder also adorn the living room.

The story of the Marc Chagall is remarkable — Elie purchased a 1958 pastel of a NYC window view before realizing the scene was strangely familiar. He then learned that Chagall had stayed in 1958 at the Stanhope Hotel, now the apartment of Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld.