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A kidney-shaped pool featuring an abstract sculpture by Adaline Kent is a centerpiece at the Donnell Garden, in Sonoma, California. Located on the site of a former cattle ranch, the garden—also known as El Novillero—was created for Jean and Dewey Donnell in 1948 by landscape architect Thomas Church.
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In 1961 Pablo Picasso painted and signed the bottom of the pool at Villa El Martinete, the Marbella, Spain, residence of his friend, celebrated flamenco dancer and actor Antonio Ruiz Soler. The property is now for sale by the real-estate firm Savills .
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A bold red cube sculpture by Tony Rosenthal appears to be balancing on its corner beside the pool at architect Lee F. Mindel’s home ( click here to see AD’s tour of the property ) in North Sea, New York.
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At Villa Emslieb, gallerist Thaddaeus Ropac’s estate near Salzburg, Austria, conceptual artist Sylvie Fleury emblazoned the bottom and sides of a granite pool with words and phrases. Standing guard is a bronze bunny fountain by Tom Sachs.
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Keith Haring painted a mural of swimming figures, mermaids, fish, and dolphins for a public pool in New York City’s Greenwich Village in 1987.
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The inspirational message—an homage to the Pointer Sisters’ 1983 hit—was painted by Ich Bin Kong on the floor of a diving pool in the spa town of Wiesbaden, Germany, in 2010.
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A 1986 photograph shows gallerist André Emmerich (far left) watching David Hockney paint C-shaped waves on the interior of a pool at Top Gallant, Emmerich’s 150-acre country estate and sculpture garden in Pawling, New York.
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Another art-embellished pool in Saint-Paul de Vence, France, can be found at Fondation Maeght , a museum and sculpture park. Here, in 1963, George Braque created Les Poissons, a mosaic of fish in shades of turquoise, cerulean, and sapphire.
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George Braque crafted a mosaic signature for Les Poissons.
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An Alexander Calder mobile stands prominently poolside at Colombe d’Or , a small luxury hotel with a world-class art collection, in Saint-Paul de Vence, France.
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Frescoes of a tent and a shell by Francesco Clemente lend a spirit of otherworldliness to a pool at a Saint Moritz, Switzerland, residence ( click here to see AD’s tour of the property ) designed by Studio Peregalli.
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Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld created a constellation of lights on the bottom of a pool at Hôtel Métropole Monte-Carlo in Monaco, and designed the 65-foot poolside mural, inspired by The Iliad and The Odyssey. The piece, comprised of photographs etched on glass panels, is also the backdrop for a restaurant overseen by legendary French chef Joël Robuchon.
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Jorge Macchi based Piscina, which means “swimming pool” in Spanish, on an earlier watercolor that depicts a pool that resembles a telephone book with alphabetical tabs.
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__Jorge Macchi’__s Piscina was installed in 2009 at Inhotim , mining magnate Bernardo Paz’s vast contemporary-arts complex in southeast Brazil.
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Set against a white backdrop, a black Alexander Calder sculpture appears to dance above the water in a pool at a private home in Holmby Hills, California.