A Greenwich Village mews house once lived in by Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner has been listed for sale at $7.9 million. The property at 9 MacDougal Alley, a three-storey, 1,500-square-foot former carriage house built in the 1870s, is being marketed by Sotheby's International Realty as a home that could serve either as a single-family residence or as a live-work space for a designer or artist.

The couple's connection to the house dates to the winter of 1950, when they borrowed it from their friend Alfonso Ossorio, a fellow Abstract Expressionist and an early supporter of Pollock's work. The stay came after a run of breakthroughs for Pollock, including an appearance at the Venice Biennale, yet Ossorio evidently still regarded the pair as hard up, dropping by with frequent gifts of food that they accepted without correction. Ossorio gave up the property in 1952, and the house has been held by its current owner for 45 years.

The listing describes a red-brick, two-bedroom, two-bathroom home with a wood-burning fireplace, a roof deck overlooking the neighbourhood and a parking space in front, a rare convenience in that part of Manhattan.

That past runs deep along the alley. Sculptor Frederick Triebel established a studio there in 1901, and by the end of the decade most of the stables had been converted into working studios. Among those who worked there were James Earle Fraser and Charles Hawthorne, while Daniel Chester French made the clay models for the Lincoln Memorial at number 17. Collector and artist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney later acquired several studios and founded her namesake museum beside the mews in 1930, and in the 1940s Isamu Noguchi lived and worked at the now-demolished 33 MacDougal Alley.

The listing arrives while Pollock and Krasner are the subject of a major joint survey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, renewing attention on the couple's intertwined careers. It also follows another Pollock-linked sale earlier in 2026, when a Lower Manhattan loft the artist briefly shared with his brother and sister-in-law in 1932 was listed for $1.9 million.