What a clever way to merge the world of high finance, art and looking at naughty bits of your loved one: If Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman wants to take a peek at what the Financial Times has said about him he need go no further than the nude collage portrait of his wife in his Park Avenue apartment. Given to him by Dorrit Moussaieff, Iceland's first lady for his 60th birthday, it's now said to be hanging in his 740 Park Avenue apartment (although a Schwarzman rep declined comment on whether or not he owns the work):
When Moussaieff met London artist Natasha Archdale, she found just the thing. Archdale creates nude female figures from coral-hued fragments of the Financial Times newspaper. Moussaieff commissioned a portrait of Schwarzman's wife, Christine.
``It's in his Park Avenue apartment, between a Rembrandt and a Picasso,'' Moussaieff said in an interview. ``I have yet to meet someone who does not want a naked picture of their loved ones with text about themselves.'' She declined to say what the picture cost.
Archdale's portraits can cost as much as $30,000. If you're intrigued by her works and want one of your own, be warned that you may have a wait: she has commissions that will keep her busy for the next two years.
``Lots of people think I had this clever agenda of mixing the female nude with the Financial Times because the correlation is good: sex and money and business, and art at the moment is so prolific,'' Archdale said, sitting in front of five of her pieces at a friend's house in London's Notting Hill. ``But it wasn't that well thought out.''
Female Nudes Crafted From Financial Times Lure Bank Barons - Bloomberg
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