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French Artist Pierre Huyghe Buys Brownstone in Clinton Hill Historic District

The French conceptualist purchased a stately brownstone on Clinton Avenue in November for $3.685 million.

Brooklyn Homes for Sale in Clinton Hill at 304 Clinton Avenue

by Craig Hubert

01/02/2018 3 minute 0

Another artist has landed in Brooklyn.

Pierre Huyghe, the French conceptualist whose work has been exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the Tate Modern in London, among other storied art institutions, purchased a stately brownstone in the Clinton Hill Historic District at 304 Clinton Avenue in November for $3.685 million.

The home, which has an owner’s duplex and three rentals, was a House of the Day back in June.

As we said then, there is a gorgeous parlor floor in the duplex, with near 12-foot ceilings, crown moldings, parquet floors, a pair of mantels, mahogany door and window casings and floor-to-ceiling windows in the front.

He’ll join Chris Olifi, David Salle, Matthew Barney and Kara Walker, who all live nearby. Lorna Simpson, who sold her townhouse at 206 Vanderbilt Avenue in Fort Greene in 2015 for $2.8 million, still has her David Adjaye-designed studio next door, at 208 Vanderbilt Avenue.

brooklyn real estate pierre huyghe 304 clinton avenue clinton hill — “The Third Memory” by Pierre Huyghe. Image via Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Huyghe is no stranger to Brooklyn, having previously rented a townhouse apartment in Prospect Heights. One of his most well-known projects is an installation called “The Third Memory,” from 2000, which reenacts the 1972 hold-up of a Gravesend bank immortalized in Sidney Lumet’s 1975 film “Dog Day Afternoon.”

The piece features John Wojtowicz, the real-life inspiration for Al Pacino’s character, retelling his version of the event. It is currently in the permanent collection of the Guggenheim Museum.