“I could just stay in my studio and paint for myself — and I ultimately do do that — but it’s kind of exciting to know that there’s an audience, and for that audience to be able to have its own interpretation of what that painting means to them,” he said

Several art critics recently told West Wing Playbook said that the value of the art is inextricably tied to the younger Biden’s surname, a point that Hunter Biden said he does not dispute

The Biden administration has worked to allay fears that the art exhibition risks undue political influence and said there’s an agreement with the George Bergès Gallery to shield the buyer’s identity from the president and his son, as well as the White House and the general public

For his part, the younger Biden said he had no say in determining the value of his art and noted that the market can be “completely subjective, and completely arbitrary at times, and has sometimes nothing to do with anything at the moment.”

“I never said my art was gonna cost what it was gonna cost, or how much it was gonna be priced at