Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Monday, November 5, 2007
The Playboy Mansion, L.A.
Hef's Garden of Eden -- six acres on top of a hill in the middle of a redwood forest --was the most expensive real estate transaction of its kind to date in LA history.
Purchased for $1.05 million in 1971. Today, the property is valued at more than $50 million. Since moving in, Hef landscaped the yard and added a pool, the Grotto, the Bath House, gymnasium and tennis courts. A long, winding driveway ascends through the trees to meet the 30-room Gothic and Tudor mansion with ivy-covered stone walls, leaded glass windows, a slate roof, burnished copper drains and castle-like turrets in the corners. Rolling Stone Magazine called Hef's Shangri-la "a miniaturized Versailles."
The Mansion boasts of a permanent collection of fine artwork with a rarified list of artists, who’s names rival those of The Louvre Museum in Paris. The Fine Art Gallery housed at the Mansion includes pieces by;
- Jackson Pollack
- Matisse
- Picasso
- Warhol
- Peter Max
- Leroy Neiman
and now, Pop Artist Nicolosi.
Recently, Pop Artist Nicolosi www.PopArtGalleries.com was called upon by the ultimate American Pop Culture icon, Hugh Heffner, to create one of Nicolosi’s signature
Pop Art portraits for Mr. Heffner.
“Hef”, hand picked the photograph of him and the “Girls” as inspiration for
the Nicolosi portrait of “Hef and The Girls Next Door”.
Mr. Heffner summoned Nicolosi to The Playboy Mansion to deliver the final
Portrait in person.
The portrait is now in the permanent collection of fine artwork housed at The Playboy Mansion.
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