NYC gallery unveils new $225K Hunter Biden painting

[packman]

This Hunter Biden painting is selling for the price of a house.






"The most expensive artwork at the first son’s new SoHo show is priced at $225,000 — and already has two interested buyers, The Post has learned.

On Saturday, a gallery worker refused to give The Post details on the potential buyers of the untitled, 57×98 inch, mustard-yellow floral painting on Yupo Japanese paper.

Unlike last year’s debut of Biden’s artistic oeuvre, which was by invitation only, the new show, “Haiku,” is open to the public and features much stronger works, according to Biden’s gallerist Georges Berges."

.... Hunter has talent...

https://nypost.com/2022/12/10/nyc-gallery-unveils-new-hunter-biden-paintings-in-public-show/

[mcar]

1. I like it!

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

45. me too

[Wicked Blue]

2. Nice!

Wish I could paint like that!

[pwb]

3. Nice.

.

[SYFROYH]

4. Looks like it came out of Pier 1 Wall Decor aisle.

SMH

[Shermann]

8. Sure, but Pier 1 has good stuff! nt

[SYFROYH]

10. A lot of people agree with you.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

13. They have butter cookies! 😋

[bahboo]

23. damn you! heading to pantry....

[Floyd R. Turbo]

43. 😁

[BeerBarrelPolka]

9. +1

[KentuckyWoman]

14. That's the beauty of art

Everyone's taste is different. If enough people "feel" the work then it goes commercial.

In my bathroom is a cheapo print of Georgia O’Keeffe, Hibiscus with Plumeria, I like it a lot. It makes me smile every morning. The original sold for more than 4 Million a few years ago.

[Permanut]

36. There's just "something" about O'Keefe's work..

For me it's the same with MC Escher

[Celerity]

58. ...

[gldstwmn]

24. I'm sitting at a Pier 1 table I bought 25 years ago as I type this.

And I like Hunter's work so I guess my taste is pretty pedestrian.

[SYFROYH]

25. Pieer 1 was very popular in the 1980s and 90s.

We all like what we like.

[Dorian Gray]

52. It's a nice painting

but you're right. It looks like something available from a mass producer. Golden background with a bunch of flowers. $225,000 is a lot for this.

[LiberalFighter]

5. Tell the orange idiot all of the data from Hunter's laptop is encoded in the painting.

The orange background indicates there is lots of incriminating data on the MaraLago idiot.

[Permanut]

35. And her emails could be cleverly hidden in there as well

[Jade Fox]

6. Hope they have good security at the gallery......

given the MAGA nut obsession with Biden.

[TheBlackAdder]

28. THIS! 👍 Also, I wonder what the MAGA conspiracy will be for it being a nice piece of art.

[jayschool2013]

29. They'll say

George Soros bought it, and then the proceeds immediately were donated to a ping-pong supply store that's really a front for a clinic that does abortions at 39 weeks.

[peppertree]

34. ..and serves up baby meat pizza!

Goes well with pineapple, I hear.

[EarnestPutz]

38. I think that I'll open a "Go Fund Me" for $225,000 so "Q" can buy the painting and our team....

.....of forensic experts can get to work on it. ("Q" is my cat and the "experts" are my four grade school grand sons", but keep that to yourself).

[Kingofalldems]

7. MTG sez---subpoena that painting!

[Vinca]

11. This is the most amusing part of the whole GQP vendetta against Hunter. The one outcome

that is assured is the price of his art is going to skyrocket.

[yorkster]

12. Knowing little, I would say

shows great sense of color and composition - imaginative with a soupcon of whimsy.

In short, I like it.

[msfiddlestix]

56. ✔️ ✔️ ✔️

"soupcon of whimsy"

great descriptor!

[yorkster]

60. Merci, merci.

It was an attempt at pompous critic-speak, but I do like the painting.

[msfiddlestix]

61. ✔️

[Just A Box Of Rain]

15. It must be a shock to reporters at the New York Post that paintings in Manhattan galleries

sell for $225,000.

I wonder if they have checked the prices of homes lately?

This Hunter Biden painting is selling for the price of a house.

[dsc]

20. It actually did cost more than my house

but I am in a small town in NC not the big city or even close to the big city.

[gldstwmn]

26. They meant the price of a home upstate in the middle of nowhere.

[msfiddlestix]

59. that price will buy a mobile home in california, or possibly a small lot with no buildings

our gas prices are generally over twice as much at the pump than it is for many other areas in the coungry.

I remember when an average sixed 3 to 4 bedroom home on a good sized lot sold for $50-$60 k.. when the average went up to a quarter million it was shocking, unless of course it was on beach front property.

[GoCubsGo]

16. It's alright.

I have seen some of his other paintings that I like a whole lot more. I ain't a big fan of mustard yellow. Still, it's better than anything I could produce.

[brush]

17. Meh...nothing special. It's the name driving the price.

[Mossfern]

37. I agree

I find it stilted and somehow disturbing. I hold an MFA (from a gazillion years ago) and agree that it's something one would purchase at Pier 1. Does Hunter have a statement about his work? I do have to admit that I'm kind of fussy about what I like in works of art and have strong opinions about the commercial aspect of fine art.

BTW, at this point in time Kandinsky is my favorite painter and Russian Constructivism my favorite movement.

[brush]

48. Kandinsky, very cool. I'm also partial to de Kooning's women paintings...

Fran Hals, Caravaggio, the Mexican muralists, and Picasso and Braque's cubism.

That's what I call painting.

[panader0]

54. I'd have to be paid to have that hanging in my house.

It does do anything for me. Besides, I have no wall space left--too many paintings and prints up already.

[wolfie001]

18. Reminds me of Weimer-era art

Should piss off the repube neo-Nazis ......

[Bo Zarts]

19. Wish I could sell a photo for, say, $225!

I know very few landscape photographers who can make a decent living at it.

[PatSeg]

21. I like most of his paintings

This one included.

In fairness, I actually like quite a few of George W. Bush's paintings. I wish he'd taken the artistic route instead of the political one.

[gldstwmn]

22. I like his work. He is quite talented, I think. This reminds me a little of John Lurie

and the color palette is reminiscent of Klimt.

[Mustellus]

27. Meanwhile, on Bradley Carlson's laptop.....

... the revelations keep coming... .OMG !!!!!

[highplainsdem]

30. I like it. I can also see designing the decor of a room around the colors. And since famous people

always get more for their paintings, I don't think the price is particularly outrageous.

[iluvtennis]

31. Very, very nice! n/t

[halfulglas]

32. Better than Bush II paintings. I like the colors.

After living in the last 3 years, it reminds me of viruses floating among the trees.

[mahina]

33. Nah. Sorry. I want to like it.

The problem is not brushwork or the colors, all fine. It’s the composition. Boring, static, predictable, formulaic.

But hey, good luck to him

[brush]

49. You nailed it.

[Hekate]

39. Ivanka had 30+ Chinese patents overnight, & she has no talent whatsoever except flipping her hair

Altho mustard-yellow isn’t my preference for wall art, I have to say Hunter Biden has talent. His first batch really impressed me.

As for the price of his paintings: the “right” price for original art is whatever a buyer is willing and able to pay. The fact that none of us here at DU can do it is beside the point. Also, and more sadly, where I live that money can’t get you any kind of house at all, except a tear-down.

[brush]

50. There are several professional artists who post here regularly.

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I'm more in line with post 33.

[Hekate]

51. Indeed. What did you think of the first several that went to the gallery several months back?

[IcyPeas]

40. wonder if he used balloons and straws and paint spattering?

I neither like or dislike this painting.



some of those flowers remind me of this technique:

[Mosby]

44. Yeah.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9058399/Hunter-Biden-planning-solo-art-Manhattans-ritzy-Georges-Berg-s-Gallery.html

[Ms. Toad]

41. I like what I saw of his first exhibition better. n/t

[Solly Mack]

42. I like it. I can see why the show is called "Haiku".

[edhopper]

46. It's a nice painting

Obviously his name is garnering the high cost. But that is not uncommon in the art world.
The right connections and galleries get higher prices.
But it is a painting that is not out of place in a gallery.

[mopinko]

47. a pic will never do justice to a painting this big.

know this from experience. can pretty much promise that it is very diff in person.
what u see is about 10% of that painting.

[Tickle]

53. Well um

I wouldn't pay 225k for it but it is colorful

[msfiddlestix]

55. Has a very interesting visual texture, I'm not familiar with Yupo paper

I wonder if it's sort of like "rag" paper used for watercolor? But this piece is too large for a water color isn't it?

Must be acrylic. I imagine.

It has great appeal to my eyes. nearly 5 ft by over 8 ft is rather large. It would dp nicely in a large conference room, office or corridor or hotel lobby or other similar spaces.

I'd hang a smaller version in my home. I love the colors and the initial emotions the painting evokes Especially these days.

I wonder if images of his other work is available on line?

[Kid Berwyn]

57. Better than this guy's