Irreplaceable Art Destroyed in LA Fires
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Hunter Biden artworks worth ‘millions of dollars’ destroyed in LA fires: source
A trove of nearly 200 artworks by Hunter Biden has been destroyed — one of the casualties of the wildfires ravaging Los Angeles, The Post has learned.
The controversial art had been in storage near the Pacific Palisades home of Hunter’s Hollywood attorney Kevin Morris and is valued at “millions of dollars,” a source close to the Biden family said.
Morris, who loaned the first son nearly $5 million to help pay a tax bill and has been financing a documentary on him, lives in a sprawling five-bedroom, six-bathroom home which is among the few houses still intact in the posh neighborhood, The Post can confirm.
Morris could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
Last week, as the fires began to rage, President Biden said his son’s home in nearby Malibu may still be intact. “Today, it appears that it’s still standing. They’re not sure.”
A lawyer for Hunter Biden, who is a self-taught artist who turned to painting while in recovery from drug addiction, did not immediately return a request for comment.
A Soho gallerist who represented the first son’s work and had organized solo shows of his paintings in Los Angeles and New York from 2021 said he broke ties with Hunter last year.
“I don’t know what’s happening with the art,” said gallery owner Georges Berges. “I have some of his work on canvas, some metal pieces at the gallery.”
Hunter’s art pieces have been priced as high as $500,000 each, although Berges told The Post the average price was closer to $85,000.
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That’s a great way to recoup your investment, LOL.
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Said in a flat monotone
“oh no. The fire is slowly creeping towards my priceless and insured Biden artwork. All I have time to save is the painting or this coupon for In N Out… Whatever shall I do?
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Seriously, I suspect we'll hear a lot of things lost - the whole of the Schoenberg archives were lost along with a great deal of Hollywood memorobelia.
@kluurs said in Irreplaceable Art Destroyed in LA Fires:
Seriously, I suspect we'll hear a lot of things lost - the whole of the Schoenberg archives were lost along with a great deal of Hollywood memorobelia.
No, no. None of the manuscripts were burned. Just the printed copies they sold to orchestras around the world. A loss, but replaceable.
