Inside Gemini, a Family Home Brimming With Historic Art
For 50 years, the Grinstein family has produced editions for some of the greatest artists in the world — and they loved bringing their work home.
The artist Daniel Buren painted yellow stripes over the entrance to the lanai. On the table is Ken Price’s ceramic sculpture Glad, 1998. An aluminum piece by Billy Al Bengston from 1969 hangs on the wall above George Herms’s mixed- media assemblage Scorpio (The Zodiac Behind Glass Series), 1965.
Nancy, Elyse, Ellen, and Ayn Grinstein (from left), at home in Los Angeles, surrounded by works by Ellsworth Kelly, Claes Oldenburg, Joseph Beuys, and John Baldessari (from left).
Makeup by Kale Teter for Kate Somerville at The Wall Group.
The Grinstein family, along with the artist Lloyd Hamrol, at his and Judy Chicago’s installation Dry Ice Environment, 1967, in Century City.
Stanley and Elyse Grinstein, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg.
Frank Gehry, Chuck Arnoldi, and Robert Rauschenberg were among the guests at a backyard kids’ party for Gemini friends and family.
John Altoon and Patty Oldenburg, in the Grinsteins’ yard.
Jasper Johns and Elyse.
Ed Ruscha, Jack Quinn, Stanley, and Doug Christmas.
Tony Berlant’s The House, 1966, sits next to the stairway, along with Robert Arneson’s Fallen Bricks, 1973, and Yves Klein’s Venus Bleue, 1962/1982.
Elyse Grinstein used an edition of Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans to camouflage the panels hiding the washer and dryer.
Dan Flavin’s Monument 2 for V. Tatlin, 1964–1969, in the entryway.
From the Kitchen to the Bedroom, a piece from the 1972 feminist art project Womanhouse, hangs in the bar.
Richard Serra, during his proofing session in the Gemini Artist Studio, 2000.
Rauschenberg, in the parking lot of Gemini G.E.L., 1969.
Julie Mehretu
Baldessari
David Hockney (left)
Roy Lichtenstein
Jasper Johns
Claes Oldenburg
Ann Hamilton
Photographs by Jeremy Liebman, Produced by Gillian Sagansky
A 2007 sculpture by Elsa Rady sits on the piano the Grinsteins bought for Philip Glass, and on the wall is Rauschenberg’s Pale Splore, 1979.
Portaits of Stanley and Elyse by Hockney.
Oldenburg’s mechanical sculpture Ice Bag—Scale B, 1971, produced by Gemini in an edition of 25, is flanked by the Rauschenberg and a painting by Joe Goode.
When the Grinsteins’ plan to replace a Richard Serra sculpture in the front yard with one by Chris Burden didn’t come about, Burden gave them this drawing as a consolation.
In the entryway, Baldessari’s Gemini edition God Nose, 2007, looks down from the ceiling over Wallace Berman’s Topanga Seed, 1969–1970; on the walls (clockwise, from below, left) are works by Doug Edge, Tom Wudl; Robert Graham, and Flavin.
