Percy Launches First Nude Studies Hedge Fund
I've been a pioneer in establishing hedge funds specializing in fine art, old violins, baseball cards, wine, soccer players, comic books and other collectibles. As you can see here, I have been copycatted many times. Nobody, however, has launched a fund focused exclusively on nudes. Until now.
Do you doubt its chances of success? Well, read this:
Nude studies of Kate Moss by the artist Chuck Close sold for four times their top estimate at a London auction by Christie's International today, a spokeswoman said.If you have any nude studies (e.g., photos, daguerreotypes (?), paintings) that you are interested in selling my fund, Percy Walker Nude Studies Fund, L.P., e-mail them to me. (My e-mail address is on the side bar.) We'll let you know if we're interested in purchasing.
Close made daguerreotype studies of the model for W magazine in 2003. Six prints made afterward took 84,000 pounds ($166,000), compared with a high valuation of 20,000 pounds. A nude portrait of Moss by Irving Penn was expected to fetch as much as 22,000 pounds. It sold for 38,400 pounds, including commission.
To help, here's an example of a nude study we wouldn't be interested in purchasing or receiving:
Your (?) after daguerrotype, is it a question of what it is? That is the form of extremely slow, early photography that L. Daguerre developed that is credited as the first viable photography medium. I doubt that this artist did a legit daguerrotype of Kate Moss, since it takes forever of standing still for focus. I don't think she could go that long between fixes.
At first glance, I thought this post was about Percy endowing a "Nude Studies" program at UNCG.