Photographer Annie Leibovitz has traded the space she was using as a studio for a larger duplex in the same West Village condo building, records show.
The prolific shutterbug, known for her portraits of the rich and famous, including Bruce Springsteen, Dolly Parton and Bill Gates, purchased the roughly 4,700-square-foot penthouse for $16.5 million, according to a deed that appeared in the city register Friday, which was first reported on by The Wall Street Journal.
Located in an 11-story, nine-unit building between Jane and West 12th streets, with views of the Hudson River, Leibovitz acquired the new digs through the entity River 495. She was represented by attorney Justin Marques, a partner at Midtown-based firm Becker Glynn, who signed the deed on her behalf, records show. Marques declined to comment.
The acquisition comes about seven months after she parted ways with a 3,200-square-foot apartment just a few floors down in the same building for $8 million, Crain’s reported late last year. The world-renowned photographer had fashioned the two-bedroom space, styled with an open floor plan, into her work studio. She was represented in the sale by the same attorney, Marques, records show, after having bought it for $6.5 million in 2022.
It’s unclear if Leibovitz will use the penthouse space as a work studio or as her live-in residence; last year she also parted ways with a Central Park West co-op for $10.6 million, Crain’s reported at the time.
The seller of the unit, meanwhile, was painter Helen Marden. She signed the deed herself, records show. Marden is the widow of Brice Marden, who was considered one of the most influential painters of his generation, according to a New York Times profile of Marden last July, about a year after her husband’s death. Brice Marden’s work has been displayed at many prominent art institutions around the world, including The Guggenheim on the Upper East Side, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and Kunstmuseum Basel in Switzerland.
