David Wildenstein, heir to his family’s art-dealing dynasty, is in contract to sell his family townhouse at 19 E. 64th St. for a record-breaking $81 million, The Post has learned.
The price breaks a 10-year townhouse record set when financier J. Christopher Flowers bought the Harkness Mansion at 4 E. 75th St. for a whopping $53 million in 2006. (That’s all presuming the deal does eventually close.)
This news comes after a Ukrainian-born billionaire and serial real estate collector, Len Blavatnik — owner of Warner Music and an investor in the hit Broadway show “Hamilton” — sued Wildenstein for reneging on a $79 million handshake deal that would have put the property in Blavatnik’s hands, as The Post reported last month.
Blavatnik alleged that Wildenstein acted in “bad faith” to get a better offer on the property. The limestone building on 64th Street is down the block from Central Park, between Fifth and Madison avenues.
It was last asking a cool $100 million.
Designed by Horace Trumbauer, the building features original details including 20-foot ceilings, a paneled elevator, a dramatic staircase and a third-floor paneled salon that was imported from the 18th-century home of a Parisian prince.
However, sources say it was built as an art gallery, not as a single-family mansion, and thus only has one bathroom per floor.
The mystery buyer is a Chinese conglomerate, sources say.
Cushman & Wakefield’s Michael Gembecki and Guthrie Garvin declined to comment.