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Ryan-Kleid also said that Parsing Bill was sold for about $1,300 at a fundraiser in 2012 for Academy of Art. She said she was unaware that Epstein had acquired the painting — news of which brought to mind another strange portrait of Clinton, an official portrait commissioned years earlier. Sources told The Post on Wednesday that Epstein — who was facing sex trafficking charges before his alleged suicide — had the oil painting hanging in his home for all to see. A $5.9 million painting was hung on the wall of the mansion’s home office. A taxidermied tiger and a poodle were also in the room, according to the source, who snapped photos of the home office when he was admitted by house staff.
Shanks, who described Clinton to the Philadelphia Daily News as “probably the most famous liar of all time,” says the former president never saw the shadow when he posed for the portrait in the Oval Office. The celebrated painter said he couldn't rid "this Monica thing" from his memory, so he needed to find a way to incorporate it in the portrait. "It is also a bit of a metaphor in that it represents a shadow on the office he held, or on him," he said. Far from being buried, the blue dress lives on as a peculiar reminder of a scandal that won’t go away, the popular memory of which is from time to time refreshed and renewed. ‘Clinton’ has his legs crossed over the arm of a chair, with blood red heels hovering over a rug that seems to bear the presidential seal. DailyMail.com has seen metadata which verifies where and when the picture was taken, which showed it hanging against a dark-colored wall in Epstein’s stone fortress.
This man is the model behind Epstein’s bizarre Clinton painting
Jeffrey Epstein allegedly had a painting of Bill Clinton hanging up in his Manhattan home. The picture depicting the former president apparently lounging on a chair in the Oval Office wearing red heels and posing suggestively in a blue dress redolent of Monica Lewinsky was in a room off the stairway of the. The artist who painted the official portrait of President Bill Clinton says he quietly included a reference to the Monica Lewinsky scandal — and the infamous blue dress — in his painting. The dress is similar to one worn by Hillary Clinton at the 2009 Kennedy Center Honors“It was absolutely Bill Clinton.
He was wearing heels, a blue dress and his hand was in a weird position,” the source told the newspaper. On the left-hand side of the portrait, Shanks revealed for the first time to the Philadelphia Daily News, there is a shadow cast by a mannequin wearing a blue dress that he used for the painting whenever Clinton was not posing for him. He said it's also serves as metaphor for the shadow the scandal cast over Clinton and the presidency.
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The portrait originally stirred controversy when it was released in 2006 for the notable absence of a wedding ring on the President’s hand. Former President Bill Clinton, left, looks up at his portrait after Lawrence M. Small, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, right, helped him remove the drape on April 24, 2006 in Washington, D.C. Former President Bill Clinton, left, looks up at his portrait after Lawrence M. Small, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, right, helped him remove the drape, April 24, 2006, at the Smithsonian Castle Building in Washington, D.C. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Joseph Campbell in 1990s, Clinton-Lewinsky, Popular culture, Scandal and tagged 1995, Blue dress, Clinton, Lewinsky, Recent past, Sex-and-lies scandal, Watershed year.
While the strange portrait of Clinton adds another surreal layer to the former president’s relationship with Epstein, the painting was just one of several bonkers items Epstein kept in his Manhattan mansion. The anonymous source told The Daily Mail she was shocked to see the bizarre portrait, prompting her to take a photo of the painting in 2012. Nelson Shanks, who painted a portrait of former President Bill Clinton in 2006, revealed in an interview published Sunday that there's more to the image than meets the eye, including a reference to the Monica Lewinsky scandal. And there it is, just to the left of the standing president under the fern. Shanks said he put a blue dress on a mannequin while painting the depiction but removed it when Clinton was in the room. The artist who painted the official portrait of President Bill Clinton that hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
The Daily Mailfirst reported the existence of the portrait, speaking with a source who surreptitiously snapped a photo of it during a visit to the financier and convicted sex offender’s home in October 2012. It’s believed the blue dress could be an allusion to the infamous stained blue dress at the center the Monica Lewinsky scandal, while others have pointed out the dress is similar to one Hillary Clinton wore to the 2009 Kennedy Center Honors. Kept a bizarre painting of former President Bill Clinton wearing red heels and a blue dress in his massive Manhattan mansion — and prints of the same portrait are available to purchase for under $50. A portrait of Bill Clinton wearing Hillary Clinton’s blue dress has also appeared, and was allegedly found in Jeffrey Epstein’s New York mansion. The blue dress in question is the one Hilary Clinton wore to the 2009 Kennedy Center Honors and was painted by Manhattan-based artist Petrina Ryan-Kleid. When the FBI stormed Epstein’s New York apartment they allegedly found other bizarre paintings that have not yet been released.
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