The Sagaponack studio, house and gallery of artist Sydney Butchkes is for sale. The asking price is $5.5 million. The 5,000-square-foot space is a former barn built in the 1840s. Located on 3.4 acres, the house features an open floor plan with original exposed beamed ceilings, wide plank flooring, a fireplace, radiant heat and walls of glass.
Butchkes, 85, is a sculptor and painter whose work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and the Smithsonian. He has done several commissions, including a hanging sculpture for a bar at the Ritz-Carlton in Boston. Over the years, he designed album jackets and book covers.
He has been in the Hamptons since the 1960s, when he bought the property -- for $15,000 -- from the father of Paul Brennan of Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate. Brennan is now the listing agent, with Ronald White and Cynthia Barrett.