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Wall Street Artwork
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When most people watch Wall Street they think about the stockbroking and inside trading etc. Art was a prominent feature in the Wall Street movie which is often over looked.. In particular I always liked the artwork that was in Gordon Gecko’s office. Gordon Gecko, Bud Fox and Darien all made some really interesting comments regarding the value of art and the modern art market. If you know anything regarding the artwork in Wall Street can you please send me an email with the details. anthony @ anthonywhite.net
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Joan Miro
Paysage,1974, oil on canvas, 216 x 174 cm.
This article in The New York Times may be of interest. They do note the "green and black" painting.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-64688899.html
Here is a qoute from the book:
"(7.) Gekko's office was, in fact, a converted auditorium in a Manhattan
office building. In an effort to transform the surroundings into those suitable
to Wall Street aristocracy, it was hung with original art by the likes of
Picasso, Miro, and Louise Nevelson (Wall Street Production Information 6)."
Gordon - This painting here. I bought it ten years ago for $60 000. I could sell it today for $600 000. The illusion has become real and the more real it becomes the more desperate they want it. Capitalism at it's finest.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-64688899.html
Here is a qoute from the book:
"(7.) Gekko's office was, in fact, a converted auditorium in a Manhattan
office building. In an effort to transform the surroundings into those suitable
to Wall Street aristocracy, it was hung with original art by the likes of
Picasso, Miro, and Louise Nevelson (Wall Street Production Information 6)."
If you want to buy a reproduction of the painting you might want to go here (I am not endorsing or getting payment from this web site)
Robert Dawson has this reproduction of the Miro painting for sale. The dimensions are the same as the original.
For more details contact Robert at rdawson67@gmail.com (I am not endorsing or getting payment from the sale of this painting. I only recommend people to buy my own artwork of course!)
Picasso
Jean Dubuffet (Most likely on loan from the Pace Gallery in New York)
If you are interested in buying a Jean Dubuffet painting you may want to go to Richard L Feigenson & Co
Incidentally art dealer Richard L. Feigen had a cameo role in the movie at Gekko's beach house.
Robert Birmelin
"Robert Birmelin's "The $20 Bill" shows flames licking the edge of a bill held by enlarged fingers. Is the holder about to light a cigarette? The artist isn't telling. The painting was used in the 1987 film "Wall Street" in the outer office of Gordon Gekko, a fictional symbol of Wall Street corruption and destruction." Full article here:
Jim Dine
Hard to see Keith Haring
This scene is just after he threw the bottle he was drinking out of at the painting. Apparently he was told not to hit the Haring. The director would have been better off telling Charlie what to do rather than what not to do. Charlie Sheen also owns at least two Haring paintings so it seems a little strange that he would damage one on purpose.
Julian Schnabel
“I create nothing, I own.”
Oil on canvas - 2007 - Cédric Mnich
I really love this painting go here to learn more about it.
Bud - So what do you see in this.
Darien - Purity. Innocence.
Bud - $2000 down the drain if you ask me.
Darien - So I guess you can kiss your career as an art appraiser down the drain because we paid over $400 000 for it at the contemporary picture sale last June.
Bud - It's nice if you're on mushrooms. He sure has taken a bath on that one. I thought Gordon was an astute businessman.
This is Darien & Gordon at an art auction just after he paid $2 100 000 for a piece of modern art. It is hard to know what he bought. It seems that Gordon and Bud don't like art but they both use it to get closer to Darien.
Gordon - You're as beautiful as the painting I just bought.
The painting was a James Rosenquist and it was auctioned by Christopher Burge who works for Sotherby's.
Gordon - Oh Jesus. I wish you could see this. Lights coming up. I've never seen a painting that captures the beauty of the ocean.
(Does GG like art or just the idea of making money out of something intangible like art?)
Darien - Hey Bud do you like it?
Bud - huh
FOURTH STAGE - INT. BUD'S CONDO - DAY
Bud goes over a stack of bills with something approaching concern as the gothic oak refectory table which eats 20 is
carried in, followed by a Jean Michel Basquiat featuring a skull on a rough board.
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Hello Anthony, I discovered your web page by accident. I too have wondered for years who painted the large green and black painting in Gordon Gecko's office. I love that painting. I think Julian Schnabel painted it. Here's an excerpt from http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/julian-schnabel-art-of-the-possible-786136.html:
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An interesting article on Julian Schnabel that mentions his art and Wall Street the movie.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/01/19/sm_julianschnabel119.xml&page=3
http://www.kassmeridian.com/sultan/sultanPearLemon3.html
"There was a Donald Sultan drawing of a lemon, over
Gekko's beachhouse bar; a James Rosenquist painting up for sale at a Christie's
auction (with cameo appearances by Mr. Rosenquist himself, the art dealer
Richard L. Feigen, and the auctioneer Christopher Burge); a George Condo
abstraction flitting by just for a moment, and a broken-plate work by Julian
Schnabel, providing the backdrop for a scene in which two lovers, played by
Charlie Sheen and Daryl Hannah, are breaking up."
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE6DD143BF936A15751C1A961948260
Movie credits.
Interesting articles.
http://overthenet.blogspot.com/2008/04/when-art-goes-to-movies-1.html
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