Geoffrey Raymond Paints Wall Street

摘要

How'd you come to paint financial figures?A friend said, "You should start painting people that have enough money to buy the paintings." The first one I did was [former New York Stock Exchange Chairman and Chief Executive Officer] Richard Grasso, and I put it on EBay for $3,000. The Wall Street Journal wrote a piece about it, so did the New York Times, and it sold for $3,025. Wall Street people. The woman who bought Jimmy Cayne, her husband was a senior Bear Stearns guy and she just wandered up and said, "What'll you take for it right now?" The price was either $10,000 or $12,000. The guy who bought the Fuld painting had been in Lehman Brothers risk management; he hated Richard Fuld.