A Hamptons estate with an impeccable artistic pedigree — where the late iconic novelist Truman Capote lived before selling to the artist Ross Bleckner — has found a new owner, the Post has learned.
The property, at 683 Daniels Lane in Sagaponack, is in contract for just under its $13.99 million asking price.
Bleckner bought the home from Capote for $800,000 in the 1990s. It was falling apart at the time, and has since undergone two extensive renovations that included winterizing it.
The modern, two story home is 5000 square feet. It is a fairly modest four bedrooms, and comes with four bathrooms, two fireplaces, a pool, a guest house and ocean views — all on four sprawling acres.
The property also includes an art studio/large pool house.
The property is “private, quiet and serene,” according to the listing — with lush landscaping and a large lawn that runs down to the ocean dunes.
The estate was once featured in Architectural Digest in 1976 — along with an interview with Capote. At the time, the home was described as being “hidden behind scrub pine, privet hedges and rows of hydrangea bushes.”
Capote once described the area, Sagaponack, as “Kansas with a sea breeze.” He loved to write there.
At the time, the article described a dirt lane that leads to the home as being “first opened back in 1670.”
Incredibly, the home still holds a quiet, working, untouched grace that is unusual in this era of showy opulence and megamansions on the East End.
“You can see how quiet it is here because you can barely see the top of another house. This is a place to be alone,” Capote said in the interview.