Marjories Monkey.jpg
Marjories Monkey.jpg

Marjorie Merriweather Post’s Monkey, 2025

$1,044.00
Acquired

16 × 20 in, © 2025 J.M. Bond.

A monkey sits in a carved wooden chair, holding a jeweled Cartier necklace associated with heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post. The subdued, shadowed setting contrasts with the brilliance of the necklace, evoking the early 20th-century fascination with luxury and exoticism, when wealthy collectors often kept rare animals as status symbols. The work reflects on decadence, ownership, and mischief within the culture of excess.

16 × 20 in, © 2025 J.M. Bond.

A monkey sits in a carved wooden chair, holding a jeweled Cartier necklace associated with heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post. The subdued, shadowed setting contrasts with the brilliance of the necklace, evoking the early 20th-century fascination with luxury and exoticism, when wealthy collectors often kept rare animals as status symbols. The work reflects on decadence, ownership, and mischief within the culture of excess.

This work was part of an immersive exhibition of new works in October, 2025, titled In the Company of Paintings.

Exhibition Description:

He doesn’t know Cartier from costume. To him, it’s just a shimmer that caught the light—and then his hand.

The chair should have belonged to someone else. The necklace too. But here he sits, eyes heavy with a knowledge no one taught him, spoils tangled in his grasp.

Every house has its mischief. Sometimes it drinks too much. Sometimes it talks too freely.
And sometimes it slips a necklace off the throat of an heiress and dares you to take it back.