Hunter Biden's Art Career Has About Four Months Left

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-27 11:22:17 | Updated at 2024-09-30 21:38:12 3 days ago

Hunter Biden's Art Career Has About Four Months Left
Hot Air ^ | September 26, 2024 | John Sexton

Posted on 09/27/2024 3:12:30 AM PDT by george76

Has Hunter Biden every done anything that wasn't premised on his father's position? If so, his turn from big-time deal-making to artist is not one of them. Today the NY Times notes that Hunter's art never did sell for the prices some were prepared to charge. Will they sell at all once his father leaves office?

Now, as Joe Biden leaves the White House and his son faces the prospect of prison, there are questions as to whether Hunter Biden’s art market, which never reached the heights first projected, is fizzling...

“Over time, I think his market will probably wash away,” said Charlie Horne, president of Gurr Johns, an art valuation and advisory firm. “His cachet will be short-lived. I don’t think he’s ever gotten real traction.”

Just 10 people bought Biden paintings from the Georges Bergès Gallery that had been representing him in recent years, according to testimony at a Congressional hearing earlier this year. One of them, Kevin Morris, a Hollywood lawyer and a friend of Mr. Biden, bought 11 works for $875,000, or more than half of the roughly $1.5 million gained from the sales, according to the testimony, in January. There have been no indications of any sales since then.

Kevin Morris is the friend who pushed himself to the point of insolvency to fund Hunter's legal expenses. So the fact that more than half of Hunter's sales went to him probably shouldn't count toward determining his real value in the marketplace.

In fact, it's worse than that. Two other purchasers included a co-owner of the gallery that represented his work and an LA commercial real estate investor who is well connected to Democrats and served on a commission created by President Biden. If you add in those two sales to the ones by Kevin Morris that accounts for $1.1 million of the $1.5 million total.

Ultimately, a piece of art is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it and that may not be much at this point.

Todd Levin, an art adviser, said he thought Hunter Biden might have a tough time drawing attention going forward. “Nobody is taking his art seriously,” he said...

Mr. Horne, the art adviser, was not as optimistic. He said he felt that Mr. Biden’s market had been buoyed by his proximity to a celebrity like his father, and will be more affected by the end of the Biden presidency than the criminal sanctions he faces.

“His father is no longer relevant in the maelstrom that is politics,” Mr. Horne said. “And I think that will hurt the son’s art more than the convictions.”

I honestly don't think Hunter's art looks all that bad. I mean, it's not anything I would buy, but if you like that sort of modern art his pieces are at least colorful. But that said, I do think there's no way he'd be getting the kind of money and attention he has been apart from his name and the connections that brings. Could I see some of these selling for $2,500 bucks? Sure. Are any of them worth $50,000 or twice that amount. I don't think so.

Once Joe Biden leaves office, Hunter is going to have to drop his prices substantially to stay in the market at all. And even then, I think people would be buying his stuff as a curiosity, i.e. something connected to someone famous.

Hunter has said that he doesn't care about making money from his art and if that's true then it shouldn't matter to him. Heck, if he really just cares about the work, he could paint under another name and forbid anyone to reveal his secret. Then if he can still sell a few pieces (at greatly reduced prices) he'll know people are really buying his art and not just his family name. I'm not sure Hunter Biden has ever taken that road but now might be a good time to start.

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1 posted on 09/27/2024 3:12:30 AM PDT by george76

To: george76

Obviously Burisma paid better.
But finding fulfillment in life is more important.

2 posted on 09/27/2024 3:15:34 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)

To: george76

Some Hollywood lawyer takes one in the shorts by buying a load of garbage that can’t be sold on EBay. My day just got a bit better. And it’s early.

3 posted on 09/27/2024 3:23:48 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)

To: monkeyshine

As Hunter publiclized his money-making art scam, pictures of him surfaced using a peculiar painting technique .....yet none of the gallery offerings had the pictured technique.

Rather, some art excerpts wondered how Hunter mastered the many complicated art techniques displayed in each painting in such a short time.....techniques that take decades to learn by accomplished artists.

Snx.

4 posted on 09/27/2024 3:25:36 AM PDT by Liz (Faith is believing what you cannot see; its reward is to see what you believe. St Augustine)

To: george76

Then ol Joe can finally start using that gold plated walker instead of shuffling around hoping he doesn’t fall

5 posted on 09/27/2024 3:39:40 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)

To: george76

I like how the author pretended that Hunter's art was anything other than a vehicle to bribe The Big Guy. No one else, even Jill, has anything to sell other than access to Joe. At least the Kennedys got the whole family into the politics business and I am still waiting for Chelsea Clinton to run for office.

Hunter's art reminded me of stories of the "sandwiches" served with drinks under New York's Raines Law which required bars to serve food to stay open on Sunday. The same sandwich was served to many patrons or even just made from rubber. See also To Evade Pre-Prohibition Drinking Laws, New Yorkers Created the World’s Worst Sandwich

6 posted on 09/27/2024 4:03:23 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (7/13/2024:The day the Democrats and their SA chose assassination as their primary political tool.)

To: george76

It was never about art.

7 posted on 09/27/2024 4:05:47 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)

To: Lurker

But seriously I’ll put down my marker: I am willing to pay $2,500 for a genuine Hunter painting. I think it’d be a hoot to own one. I don’t buy into the reflexive line people throw out on this forum, wondering how much somebody was paid to do this or that, but I haven’t the slightest doubt that there was a substantial financial component to Biden’s consent to the coup. I don’t think they’ll be short on cash and can afford to discount the paintings

8 posted on 09/27/2024 4:18:34 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)

To: j.havenfarm

You should throw an offer in and see what happens.

9 posted on 09/27/2024 4:21:35 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)

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