Lloyd Blankfein: He'd Go Nicely Over A Fireplace
The Possibly $87 Million Man will finally get his moment in the sun this afternoon. "Big Lloyd I (.6 Billion)," the companion portrait to "Big Dick I (Hundred Million)," will be on display today in the Financial district, and available for purchase on e-Bay. "Unlike the Grasso painting, I painted Mr. Blankfein's portrait in a straight-forward, almost corporate manner, as befits the subject and his standing on Wall Street," Geoffrey Raymond, the artist, noted. "It's really meant to be a celebration of a big year on Wall Street rather than the ironic commentary offered by 'Big Dick I.'." Eliot Spitzer is rumored to be next up in the series.
Bigger Blankfein, after the jump.
Comments
scary picture
Posted by: anon | December 19, 2006 12:48 PM
This THING is worth $1000 tops. Of course it will sell for a $10,000 or whatever absurd amount they think of next.
Posted by: Art Bubble | December 19, 2006 12:56 PM
Hey, I wonder how much Raymond pays DealBreaker.com to feature this crap...? Just wondering.
Posted by: Charles "Charlie" Charles | December 19, 2006 01:10 PM
Raymond doesn't pay us a dime. But we like the idea of artists paying attention to Wall Street, and not just the size of the wallets on Wall Street.
Posted by: John Carney | December 19, 2006 01:16 PM
I hope you mean "artists" in the broad, vague, abstract, indefinable sense of the term...
Posted by: Charles "Charlie" Charles | December 19, 2006 01:25 PM
"This THING is worth $1000 tops. Of course it will sell for a $10,000 or whatever absurd amount they think of next."
And now you've figured out investment banking!
Posted by: Frank 4trone | December 19, 2006 02:38 PM
Quattrone (?) writes, in response to some guy named (about three times) Charles:
---"This THING is worth $1000 tops. Of course it will sell for a $10,000 or whatever absurd amount they think of next."
And now you've figured out investment banking!---
I'm not an investment banker, but I am an artist. I am, in fact, the artist in question (using the broadest, vaguest, most abstract sense of the term). And what I can tell you is this:
The painting is not worth $1,ooo. It's worth about $125 bucks, most of which goes to the wooden stretchers, canvas and paint.
If someone decides to pay more, then that's the art world. If they pay #3,500--the opening bid--then so be it. If they pay 10,000, ditto. But in the end, what I know is this: I stand next to this painting when people see it for the first time and they are either pleased, annoyed, provoked to thoughts they might otherwise not have engaged, or some other experience. Mostly, I can tell you, their experience is one of pleasure.
What they choose to pay for that experience is their business, and my business, but not likely yours.
It was, I believe, either Nietzsche or Nitschke (whoever wasn't the Packer) who said: "There are more things on heaven and earth than dreamt of in your philosophy."
So either bid or shut up. But spare me, and us, your ill-considered intellectual ejaculate.
Posted by: Geoff Raymond | December 19, 2006 07:33 PM
I of course can't speak for the other chaps, but my intellectual ejaculate is extremely well-considered.
Posted by: Charles "Charlie" Charles | December 19, 2006 07:52 PM
It was Shakespeare, William and not Nietszche, Freiderich who wrote that.
Stick to smearing pastels around, and leave literature to the literate.
Posted by: Hamlet | December 20, 2006 12:18 AM
It was a joke, you nitwit.
Posted by: Geoff Raymond | December 20, 2006 09:43 PM