Michal Czerwonka for The Wall Street Journal
So it was a bit of a shock for Tobey Cotsen, a Malibu, Calif., homeowner, to discover that she owned a Turrell and didn’t know it. In 1998, Ms. Cotsen and her husband, Jon Victor, bought a house from the family of her next-door neighbor, Sydney Goldfarb, an art collector, who had died. She hasn’t gotten around to renovating the house,
A light installation by James Turrell has been uncovered in a Malibu Beach House, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The work had sat dormant in the guest house of late art collector Sydney Goldfarb’s Malibu home, and was uncovered when resident Tobey Cotsen visited Turrell’s current show at LACMA, where she realized that she had a Turrell of her own.
The work has since been confirmed by the artist’s studio. ”Where have I seen that before?” She said to herself during the exhibition. “I’ve seen it in my house.” Via: ArtObserved Read More over at the WSJ
