The di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, a beloved artwork park in Naples, California, that’s within the midst of a protracted interval of monetary issue, has listed its property for $10.9 million, in accordance a report by the San Francisco Chronicle from final weekend.
The park is host to a variety of notable works by Northern California artists from the postwar period, most notably an iconic Mark di Suvero sculpture that presides over the 217-acre property. Additionally included in its assortment are essential items by Peter Saul, Robert Arneson, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, and Deborah Butterfield, lots of them bought by the park’s founder, the collector Rene di Rosa and his spouse Veronica, who died in 2010 and 1991, respectively.
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Ever since 2019, the middle has been making an attempt to rectify a shaky monetary scenario behind the scenes. That 12 months, the di Rosa introduced that it might now not buy artworks for its assortment and that it might begin the process of selling its holdings. The announcement was met with such sharp condemnation from native artists and sellers that the middle later went again on the choice.
In 2025, the middle revealed plans to increase to San Francisco. Kate Eilertsen, the middle’s director and chief curator, told Artnet News on the time, “We’re taking some steps to have a viable marketing strategy that can permit us to not depend on philanthropy and admissions and membership, however determine a stream of earned earnings that can maintain the di Rosa sustainable.”
Eilertsen this week informed the San Francisco Chronicle that promoting the property may herald much-needed income. The hope, she mentioned, is that “some very rich artwork loving philanthropist is available in and says, ‘I’ll buy it and I’ll lease it again to you for $5 a 12 months, and you’ll maintain all the things right here.’”
One other chance would contain promoting the property to Napa County and remodeling a part of the park into mountaineering trails. Each the Napa Land Belief and Open House District had expressed curiosity in “conserving the sculptures there,” she mentioned, “and if that occurs it would permit us to have most likely two years price of time to determine how we will construct more cash and make the decrease half of the property extra profitable as a enterprise.”
The Chronicle reported that that the park’s assortment wouldn’t be bought alongside the property.