Posted on 08/15/2021 3:30:31 AM PDT by Libloather
NEW YORK - The Georges Bergès Gallery has sat on a chic stretch of SoHo for six years now, a relatively little-known newcomer in a New York art world that has long been dominated by name-brand power brokers like Pace Gallery and Gagosian.
This summer, however, it has unexpectedly become one of the most talked-about galleries in the nation, thanks to its plans to sell works by another relative newcomer to the art world: a fledgling artist who happens to be the son of the president of the United States.
The gallery is planning to sell 15 works by Hunter Biden and is asking as much as $500,000 apiece. The prices - which are high for a novice artist - have raised questions in Washington about whether the works might attract buyers seeking to curry favor with the Biden White House.
In response, the administration has helped to develop a set of ethics guidelines that call on the gallery to keep the identity of buyers and other details of the sales from both the artist and the administration.
Even though the art world is widely known for its secrecy and a lack of transparency, questions remain about how the arrangement will play out in practice.
Bergès said that he believed the guidelines would work “just fine” and that the anonymity of buyers could be preserved even though Hunter Biden plans to attend the openings of his shows, which are set to take place in a private studio in Los Angeles next month and then at the Bergès Gallery in New York in October.
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A secondary market will probably develop for a while. How long? That's the question.
The Bidens- Has there ever been a more “low-rent” President?
Graft- the Biden’s career plan. I’m sure Dr Jill is happy to be taken care of. Course if Joe was black he’d be doing as well as his boss. Sucks when you have to launder your ill gotten gains through your ill son. How much of the family dough has disappeared up Hunter’s nose? But who knew he was the next Leonardo Da Vinci?
They don’t have to “know”. They just let certain people know it would be a good thing, and leave it there. When a sale is made.. the deal is done.
the special paintings go through State Dept.
no customs. ever.
Children, and drugs, are folded inside.
the kids are taken from their parents, abused,
ignored by the DO”J” for decade after decade.
corrupt money flows, ignored
—like the child rape video tapes, now for three years.
A true to life documentary.
We need to get the gallery to affirm that they’re not in possession of any information that would call into question the authenticity of Hunters works.
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...as much as $500,000 apiece. The prices - which are high for a novice artist...
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Ya think! I’ve known a few struggling artists who did really good work and they were lucky to get a few hundred dollars for a painting.
““I think it would be challenging for an anonymous person who we don’t know and Hunter Biden doesn’t know to have influence,” Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, told reporters at a briefing last month.”
Ummmm - that’s not the WH saying they won’t know - that’s them playing word games.
Chinese artists are part of NY philanthropits' event
Note the timing of these goings on, latter part of Barry's second term...
This is a cover story for hiding the identities from us.
Dear President Biden, I brought two of Hunter’s works of art, my list follows..... Thanks Big Guy, I’m sure you will get right on it!
Exactly. The whole point of money laundering.
With Payola like this, it doesnt matter who is buying, just that the presidency is bought.
Put different colors on you dog’s paws and let him walk all over a canvas.
Ack, we all know it’s not about a canvas.
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