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This Hunter Biden painting is selling for the price of a house.
The most expensive artwork at the first son’s new Soho show is priced at $225,000 — and already has two interested buyers, The Post has learned.
On Saturday, a gallery worker Saturday refused to give The Post details on the potential buyers of the untitled, 57×98 inch, mustard-yellow floral painting on Yupo Japanese paper.
President Biden’s scandalscarred son sold two other works a day after his second solo art show opened at the Georges Berges Gallery Friday.
Unlike last year’s invitationonly debut of Biden’s artistic oeuvre, the new show, “Haiku,” is open to the public and features much stronger works, according to Berges.
“I want everyone to see his art,” Berges told The Post. “The first [show] was successful. We achieved what we wanted from that exhibition.
“This exhibition shows stronger confidence.”
Berges has refused to elaborate on which paintings sold or who bought them. Paintings in last year’s show ranged from $75,000 for works on paper to $500,000 for large canvases.
The policy of not publicly naming purchasers and what they paid was highly controversial, with some critics saying it could lead to anonymous influence-buying of the Bidens.
Berges told The Post he has several paintings in the gallery basement that Biden finished more than 20 years ago — proof, he said, that Hunter has worked most of his life to be an artist.
“He’s always been” one, Berges said. “The difference is, where we are being misconstrued that when he focused his whole life on art, they took it to being he just started doing art. But there is a difference between painting on your own and saying, ‘OK, that’s all I’m going to do, and I’m just going to be an artist.’ ”
Hunter, wife Melissa and their toddler son, Beau, attended the opening of “Haiku” on Thursday in an exclusive “friends and family” viewing.
The White House says measures are in place to prevent ethical concerns over potential buyers who might want to curry favor with the president.