The exhibitionists
Gallerist Sundaram Tagore's 2,500 sq ft Mid-Levels flat is filled with artwork that speaks volumes about his family
Text Charmaine Chan / Styling David Roden / Photography John Butlin
It's not often that Leonard Cohen lifts your day. But it is the melancholy musical bard who puts a spring in the step of the Post Magazine team photographing the Mid-Levels apartment of gallerist, art historian and filmmaker Sundaram Tagore.
"It's him doing a Humphrey Bogart," chirps our stylist, looking at the portrait of Cohen that commands attention the minute you walk through the door.
" I'm Your Man is playing," adds this fan of the high priest of pathos, ears trained on the tormented melodies grumbling through the flat.
The Lee Waisler painting of the musician that hangs in the living room is just one of many artworks provoking wonder and discussion in the 2,500 sq ft apartment of Indian-born Tagore, his American wife, Kelly, and their six-year-old daughter, Mia.
"I didn't even know who the person was [when I bought the painting]," says Tagore, who opened his eponymous gallery on Hollywood Road in 2008. "What I really liked was its tactile quality and how I could enter his spirit."