A Matisse By the Tool Drawer

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Phyllis Hattis, who lived with the late MOMA curator William Rubin in art-crammed adjoining apartments (his was rent-controlled), gives a tour, hammer in hand, Zach Helfand writes.

Their conjoined apartment—specifically the art they continued collecting in it—is the subject of a new book by Hattis, “Masterpieces: The William Rubin Collection—Dialogue of the Tribal and the Modern.” The book presents the works via a tour of the apartment: Picasso above the piano, Matisse by the tool drawer, tribal masks on the windowsill. The other day, Hattis offered a real-life trip through the penthouse. “So, we had a little disaster yesterday,” Hattis said, emerging from the kitchen.

“She got to the door, and the guard said, ‘I’m sorry, the museum is closed,’ ” Hattis recalled. “She said, ‘But I’m Jacqueline Picasso.’ And he said, ‘And I’m Jesus Christ.’ ” Rubin started his collection with some money from his father, who owned textile mills. He eventually got a loft in lower Manhattan and filled it with Abstract Expressionists. Hattis pulled out some photographs of the space. “This is Rothko,” she said. “This is Motherwell. That’s Frankenthaler. This is Larry Poons.

 

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