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While Ryan-Kleid’s original “Parsing Bill” is listed as sold on Saatchi, anyone can purchase a 10 x 10 fine art print for just $40. Frames are also available for $80, meaning the same picture of Bill Clinton in a dress could be hanging in your home for just $120. "I could never get this Monica thing completely out of my mind and it is subtly incorporated in the painting."Take Herbert Abrams's portrait of George H.W. Bush.
"But I think this is one case when I need to be fairly straightforward. I'll just try to paint the man, his intelligence, his amiability and his stature, maybe paint him fairly close to humor and try to get it just right." The convicted pedophile also had a taxidermied tiger and poodle, a mannequin hanging from the ceiling — dressed in a wedding gown — and a $5.6 million painting of a woman cupping her bare breast. The artist behind Jeffrey Epstein’s now-viral portrait of Bill Clinton in a blue dress says she sold the painting at a Tribeca Ball fundraiser several years ago — and had “no idea” that Epstein was the one who had purchased it.
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On Tuesday, federal authoritiesremovedthe prison warden and the pair of guards from their roles. Attorney General William Barr expressed anger with Epstein’s handling and reiterated his pledge to fully investigate his death. Flight logs obtained by Fox News showed the former president took at least 26 trips aboard Epstein’s Boeing 727, nicknamed the “Lolita Express,” from 2001 to 2003. That “included extended junkets around the world with Epstein and fellow passengers identified on manifests by their initials or first names, including ‘Tatiana,’” the outlet found. A protest group called “Hot Mess” hold up signs of Jeffrey Epstein in front of the Federal courthouse in New York City on July 8, 2019.
Jeffrey Epstein reportedly had a large painting of Bill Clinton wearing red heels and a blue dress hanging in his Manhattan mansion. 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 Upper East Side townhouse. The 77-year-old artist, who referred to Clinton as "the most famous liar of all time," admitted that he was never able to shake the Lewinsky scandal from his mind at the time.
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The blue dress is a reference to the infamous "blue dress" related to the scandal. An unusual portrait painting in Jeffrey Epstein’s New York mansion appears to show former President Bill Clinton wearing a blue dress and red high heels. Nelson Shanks, the artist who painted a portrait of former President Bill Clinton in 2006, revealed that if you look closely, you can see the infamous blue Monica Lewinsky dress portrayed in the shadows.
“It was just a silly school artwork that was supposed to show, pictorially, the messages we are bombarded with in regards to these presidents,” Ryan-Kleid told ArtNetNews. Dress,” those cultural reminders of her dalliance as an intern with President Bill Clinton. Their clandestine and intermittent affair at the White House began in 1995 and nearly cost him the presidency. The New York Academy of Art specializes in traditional figurative painting, but encourages its students to explore a wide range of subject matter with those skills. Her pair of paintings of US presidents is a product of that training. The painting of Clinton was purchased from the 2012 Tribeca Ball, a fundraiser for the school, though she said that she hadn’t been aware of who bought it.
And in a 2001 interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer, Shanks insisted he was taking the assignment seriously. Although she was stunned by the painting, her business partner managed to take a snap of the painting. That image is apparently inspired by the famous image of Uncle Sam used in James Montgomery Flagg’s World War I recruiting poster.
Has revealed a surprise -- the portrait “subtly” incorporated Monica Lewinsky. In it, artist Nelson Shanks had slyly painted a shadowy reminder of Lewinsky’s blue dress. Perhaps Shanks decided to add the dress later—or perhaps, taking a cue from the dissembling ways of his subject, he opted to hide it. When he was working on the painting prior to its unveiling in 2006, Shanks described it in terms strikingly at odds with his current account. "There are times when I love to play all kinds of complicated games in painting," he told The Philadelphia Inquirer.
"What is all the fuss about? This is a great painting," Shanks said. The Manhattan jail’s warden was replaced pending the results of the investigation after it was found jailers failed to carry out rigorous protocols put in place to monitor inmates on special watch. “As with most of my paintings, I had completely lost track of this piece when it was sold seven years ago. So it was a complete surprise to me to learn yesterday that it wound up in Epstein’s home,” Ryan-Kleid said in a statement to the Post.
The painting has been matched to an oil work called “Parsing Bill,” sold by Australian-American artist Petrina Ryan-Kleid. According to the Post source, the work in Epstein’s mansion also appears to be oil, and its size is consistent with the dimensions of the original that Ryan-Kleid exhibited in 2012 when she graduated with an MFA from the New York Academy for Art. For the low price of $120, a 10 x 10 print of the now-cursed image is available for purchase at the online gallery Saatchi Art.
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How exactly the painting managed to make its way from a master’s thesis to the home of a convicted pedophile remains unknown. The painting was a centerpiece in Epstein’s home and was displayed right in the entryway, immediately presented to anyone entering a room in the disgrace financier’s house. The Daily Mail exclusively obtained the photo of the portrait from a source who also said she spotted a Hispanic girl who appeared to be about 14 years old waiting to meet with Epstein.
Epstein, a convicted pedophile, was arrested last month on charges of sex trafficking girls as young as 14. Just when we thought it was safe to go back onto the Internet and not be confronted by that darn white, gold, blue, and black (whatever!) dress, another infamous frock has reared its ugly hem. According to Shanks, Clinton personally chose him to paint his official portrait.
