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You may remember Georges Bergès. He’s the New York art gallery proprietor who has exhibited Hunter Biden’s paintings and insisted, with a straight face, that the Big Guy’s bag man is a genuine artist. Now, however, Bergès has admitted what the entire world knew all along: the whole Hunter-As-Picasso shtick was just another Biden influence-peddling scheme.
House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) interviewed Bergès and issued this statement on Tuesday:
The Biden White House appears to have deceived the American people about facilitating an ethics agreement governing the sale of Hunter Biden’s art. Hunter Biden’s gallerist never had any communication with the White House about such an agreement to make sure there was any sort of ethics compliance at all, and he provided information to the committee revealing how Hunter Biden’s amateur art career is an ethics nightmare. The vast majority of Hunter Biden’s art has been purchased by Democrat donors, one of whom was appointed by President Biden to a prestigious commission after she purchased Hunter Biden’s art for tens of thousands of dollars shortly after Joe Biden’s inauguration. The White House has a lot of explaining to do about misleading the American people.
Biden’s handlers are not the only ones who need to do some explaining. Bergès himself does as well. He famously said in February, “I know that there’s a lot of politics involved at the moment which is a shame because his work is not only good, it’s important. Hunter Biden will become one of the most consequential artists in this century because the world needs his art now more than ever.”
Consequential. Yeah, that’s undeniably true, but the consequential nature of Hunter Biden’s art may not lie within his paintings themselves but in the purposes for which they were created and sold. And sold they certainly did: this crackhead party boy who had shown no previous sign of having any interest in art, much less a talent for it, overnight became one of the hottest properties in the art world, with his paintings going for as much as $500,000 and generally selling for between $55,000 to $225,000 each.
In comparison, in 2021 a painting by Pablo Picasso sold for $150,000. To be sure, better-known Picasso paintings frequently sell for millions, but it was astonishing for Hunter Biden’s paintings to be selling for prices that were remotely comparable to what was paid for anything that one of the great masters produced.
Yet despite Bergès’ admission to Comer, which essentially reveals that Hunter’s entire artistic career was just another money-making scheme for the Biden crime family, as of this writing on Wednesday morning, Hunter’s bio is still available in the “Our Artists” section of the George Bergès Gallery website. It’s as fanciful as the idea that Hunter is an artist worthy of note…
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Fuzzy says
Money laundering. Quid pro quo.
James Lincoln says
Exactly, Fuzzy.
Bexarkat says
Perhaps your article’s title is misleading to some, including me. I thought the article would indicate that it was not Hunter Biden who created this paintings, rather they were painted by a highly intoxicated, geriatric chimpanzee.
ElderlyZionist says
“…with his paintings going for as much as $500,000 and generally selling for between $55,000 to $225,000 each.”
Those are their initial purchase prices. What’s their resale value? I suspect they have none, because the buyers weren’t paying for the paintings.
commonsense says
Excellent point. It will indeed be interesting to see how the buyers of these canvasses fare should any opt to resell them in the years to come.
somehistory says
For me, this statement alone “one of the most consequential artists in this century because the world needs his art now more than ever.”, shows the **real reason** the art gallery liar was being paid to push the pretend *art.*
The only ‘consequence” this garbage should have is prison time for the dirty, lying creep who supposedly produced it.
“The world” doesn’t, and never will “need his art.”
Liars believe everyone lies. This guy is not only a liar, but he somehow believes everyone else is totally stupid and gullible.
commonsense says
Throw rotten tomatoes and dead cats at me if you wish, but I actually do think this reprobate son of the corrupt, despicable traitor who currently occupies the White House genuinely possesses some artistic talent. The pieces are, to me, colorful and pleasingly configured. I would say they merit around $300-$500 apiece. I’ve seen a lot of crap done by utterly talentless artists displayed in twee upscale galleries going for at least that amount, and sometimes far more. Ugly, crude, clumsy stuff…I’d rather own one of Hunter’s efforts…as I said, for about $300.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
The most disgraceful aspect of Hunter’s painting saga was that he was allowed to use it to give to Navy Joan Roberts, the daughter he had w/ an Arkansas porn star Lunden Roberts. His settlement w/ her was that he’d give some undisclosed amount of money to her monthly for her maintenance, plus several of his paintings. Which is a cruel joke, since the Roberts’ can’t sell those to anyone for the sort of money Hunter was selling to the Chicoms for influence peddling
somehistory says
He should be made to buy them back from her, and pay whatever amount the mom demands; and not be allowed to resell them to anyone at any price. He cheated the child…just having him for a “father’ is a huge cheat for the little girl. He shouldn’t be allowed to make it worse.
James Lincoln says
somehistory says,
“He should be made to buy them back from her, and pay whatever amount the mom demands”
Wow, I didn’t think of that one!