Go with me on this.

I’m asking because apparently Geoffrey Raymond, the preeminent artist of our time, is selling the above for $40,000. If you’re interested but need to see it up close before writing a check, Raymond is displaying it right now in front of the NYSE. In related news, who here pictured JC having that much chest hair? I personally never gave it much thought but now confronted with the question I’d have to say yeah, he’s probably pretty rug-like. (Perhaps not so much as a result of genetics but one misguided summer as a lifeguard on Jones Beach, not realizing the consequences of taking a razor to his chest.)

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Comments (58)

  1. Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2010 at 1:30 PM

    accurately captures his inner beauty

  2. Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2010 at 1:31 PM

    More Louis C.K than JC, but whatever, Richard.

  3. Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2010 at 1:31 PM

    Does Cramer have three nipples?

  4. Posted by Dr. Galakowitz | July 15, 2010 at 1:32 PM

    He has a better chance of selling a painting portraying Art Cashin from the waist down.

  5. Posted by NakedShort | July 15, 2010 at 1:33 PM

    BEAR IS FINE!!!

  6. Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2010 at 1:33 PM

    I prefer the mexican hairless

  7. Posted by sladd | July 15, 2010 at 1:37 PM

    that is exactly how i pictured that stock jockey

  8. Posted by JerseyShorePatrol | July 15, 2010 at 1:37 PM

    Body by The Situation(tm)

  9. Posted by creditquant | July 15, 2010 at 1:38 PM

    @2 dead on

  10. Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2010 at 1:39 PM

    can kramer even afford to buy this?

  11. Posted by Guest | July 15, 2010 at 1:39 PM

    Ah, the “cold shower” answer to the charity thread.

    I can now think again…

    Damn you!!

  12. Posted by WCBURRS87 | July 15, 2010 at 1:40 PM

    I’m not an art expert, but does the yellow in the background symbolize Lenny Dykstra?

  13. Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2010 at 1:40 PM

    Looks like someone just splashed a bucket full of Kouwe on a canvas.

  14. Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2010 at 1:41 PM

    how about a topless photo of Mandy Boobery?

  15. Posted by Anal_yst | July 15, 2010 at 1:42 PM

    This is actually how I picture Cramer, in a Devil’s Advocate sorta way.

  16. Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM

    I would like to be paid to receive that picture.

  17. Posted by koolaidisfun | July 15, 2010 at 1:49 PM

    how much would you pay for a topless picture of Bess? Much more interesting story

  18. Posted by CMBS 4-Life | July 15, 2010 at 1:49 PM

    4 maybe 5 shares of Citi and a bottle of pestiside

  19. Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2010 at 1:50 PM

    He is struggled, he is man-struggled. He lifts my spirit!

    He is a loathsome, offensive brute, yet I can’t look away.

  20. Posted by Denny Deckshoes | July 15, 2010 at 1:51 PM

    @12 FTW

  21. Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2010 at 1:52 PM

    Will the proceeds be going to Jim’s “charitable trust”

  22. Posted by FKA LA | July 15, 2010 at 1:53 PM
  23. Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2010 at 1:54 PM

    Cramer: Ts on an S

  24. Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2010 at 1:56 PM

    So this is what Pigpen grew up to be?

  25. Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2010 at 2:00 PM

    moobs?

  26. Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2010 at 2:05 PM

    Is this prep for some challenge you have in mind later, Bess?

  27. Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2010 at 2:08 PM

    @22 – I am the walrus?

  28. Posted by Bess Levin | July 15, 2010 at 2:09 PM

    @26 and what would that be? shaving cramer’s chest hair?

  29. Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2010 at 2:17 PM

    That painting is just scary looking. I feel like someone just kicked me in the spine and I am having a terrible acid flashback.

  30. Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2010 at 2:20 PM

    @28 – oh, just figured there’s gonna be a lot of empty stomachs after reading that headline/viewing the pic.

  31. Posted by everything on red | July 15, 2010 at 2:20 PM

    I realize everyone has seen this before, but whenever he is mentioned, someone has to link to this video of his “brilliant” Bear Stearns call:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUkbdjetlY8
    “NO, NO, NO. Bear Stearns is fine!!!!! Do not take your money out.”

  32. Posted by everything on red | July 15, 2010 at 2:22 PM

    Also a classic:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVl9SQ-KVmE

    Marginalizing the subprime meltdown, turning it into a joke. HA! Funny. Someone should book him on Jon Stewart sometime…

  33. Posted by Mark Itcall | July 15, 2010 at 2:23 PM

    Aha! Now we know what happened to Pigpen in the later years…

  34. Posted by guest | July 15, 2010 at 2:24 PM

    @28 make it hot sugaring wax & I’m in.

  35. Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2010 at 2:28 PM

    @33, thank you!
    -24

  36. Posted by Guest | July 15, 2010 at 2:29 PM

    NakedShort is Cramer! Who woulda of guessed?

  37. Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2010 at 2:33 PM

    too much yellow, not enough mellow

  38. Posted by CommenterFormallyKnownAsNakedShort | July 15, 2010 at 2:35 PM

    @36 Fuck

  39. Posted by CMBS 4-Life | July 15, 2010 at 2:52 PM

    desktop background win

  40. Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2010 at 3:03 PM

    @28 mad wax on cnbc, special showcase featuring druries

  41. Posted by anonymous | July 15, 2010 at 3:17 PM

    Where can we get our hands on a Cashin?

    -Kneale and Bob

  42. Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2010 at 3:19 PM

    i love erin burnett

  43. Posted by EvilBuzzard | July 15, 2010 at 3:24 PM

    EVIL….That is all.

  44. Posted by PermaGuest | July 15, 2010 at 3:24 PM

    @3 just like Scaramanga

  45. Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2010 at 3:26 PM

    Marry, F, Kill……….Trish Reagan, Erin Burnett and Mandy Boobery

  46. Posted by OMG-the other white bess | July 15, 2010 at 3:42 PM
  47. Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2010 at 3:45 PM

    Too Pollock, didn’t read.

  48. Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2010 at 3:58 PM

    Is that a nose ring?

  49. Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2010 at 4:15 PM

    I like the Fibonnaci spiral nipples….

    ~Precter

  50. Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2010 at 5:48 PM

    he needs a manscape

  51. Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2010 at 8:29 PM

    A topless Cramer? Well, that’s a SELL SELL SELL

  52. Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2010 at 8:30 PM

    And might I add, HOUSE OF PAIN

  53. Posted by Janitor | July 15, 2010 at 10:56 PM

    @47 FTW

  54. Posted by Anonymous | July 16, 2010 at 5:43 AM

    @12 .. no the yellow is piss… no symbolic factor at all.

    - not an art critic either, but can see when its rubbish.

  55. Posted by McGuesterson | July 17, 2010 at 6:05 PM

    My kid can fingerpaint a better painting of Jim Cramer than Geoffrey Raymond’s cheesedick image. $40,000 for this piece of crap? This garbage passes for art – how truly pathetic the pseudointelligentsia have become.

  56. Posted by Davinci | July 20, 2010 at 6:27 PM

    zillion bucks. But the title should be how much would u offer for a minaj with Erin,Melissa, and Trish. LOL

  57. Posted by Rbel51 | March 10, 2011 at 2:45 PM

    last I heard it was sold

  58. Posted by jacksonville | April 18, 2012 at 10:16 AM

    riEUhE I appreciate you sharing this blog post.Much thanks again. Cool.

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