155 Riverside Dr
- Address: 155 Riverside Dr
- Vicinity: W 88th St
- Neighborhood of Upper East Side in Manhattan NYC
- Borough of Manhattan NYC in New York City
Sometime after Robert's arrival, Julius moved his family to a spacious eleventh-floor apartment at 155 Riverside Drive, overlooking the Hudson River at West 88th Street. The apartment, occupying an entire floor, was exquisitely decorated with fine European furniture. Over the years, the Oppenheimers also acquired a remarkable collection of French Postimpressionist and Fauvist paintings chosen by Ella. By the time Robert was a young man, the collection included a 1901 "blue period" painting by Pablo Picasso entitled Mother and Child, a Rembrandt etching, and paintings by Edouard Vuillard, Andre Derain and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Three Vincent Van Gogh paintings - Enclosed Field with Rising Sun (Saint-Remy, 1889), First Steps (After Millet) (Saint-Remy, 1889) and Portrait of Adeline Ravoux (Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890) - dominated a living room wallpapered in gold gilt. Sometime later they acquired a drawing by Paul Cezanne and a painting by Maurice de Vlaminck. A head by the French sculptor Charles Despiau rounded out this exquisite collection.
155 Riverside Dr is a 1910 upscale New York City apartment building. In the early part of the 20th century, the entire 11th floor was the home of Oppenheimer family. The place was kept clean by three live-in maids, suitable for the Oppenheimer's art collection. - AsNotedIn