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\n\tIn Citizen Kim<\/em>, Jonathan Van Meter\u2019s biography of Kim Kardashian, the author reveals that the billionaire reality TV star and Skims founder owns a painting by Claude Monet.<\/p>\n \n\tIn an excerpt published by The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>, Van Meter writes that Kardashian bought the Monet because of Clueless<\/em>, the 1995 film starring Alicia Silverstone. \u201cKim bought a Monet not because she had visited the famous Water Lilies<\/em> at l\u2019Orangerie in Paris or under the art world tutelage of Kanye West,\u201d Van Meter writes.<\/p>\n Clueless<\/em> was released when Kardashian was 14, and she has called it one of her favorite films. Silverstone\u2019s character, Cher Horowitz, is the daughter of a hard-nosed litigator, much like Kardashian\u2019s late father, the attorney Robert Kardashian. One of Cher\u2019s best-known lines is \u201cShe\u2019s a full-on Monet. It\u2019s like a painting, see? From far away it\u2019s OK, but up close it\u2019s a big ol\u2019 mess.\u201d Kardashian told Van Meter that the line is \u201cthe reason I bought my Monet. The first real piece of art that I bought\u2014myself\u2014was a Monet. Because in the movie they called the girls \u2018a Monet\u2019 if they look good from afar, but up close they\u2019re just a mess.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tIn the book, Kardashian says she bought the painting at auction while she was in Rome with Kim Jones, Fendi\u2019s former artistic director of womenswear, who worked with her on a Fendi x Skims collection. \u201cI really wanted this Monet painting because it\u2019s a gray Monet\u2014a pretty landscape, but gray. \u2026 I really wanted it for my Tadao Ando house in Palm Springs, which is all concrete. And I\u2019m bidding and I\u2019m bidding, and it was the first auction that I ever did, so I didn\u2019t really know how they worked,\u201d Kardashian told Van Meter. \u201cBut you get really into it. So Kim Jones is there with me and he\u2019s like, \u2018GET IT!\u2019 So I bid on it. I win. And I went over what my budget was because you\u2019re in the moment.\u201d The Fendi x Skims collaboration was announced in 2021, which suggests that the Monet was bought around that time.<\/p>\n \n\tIn a 2020 interview with E!<\/em>, Kardashian says that the best gift she\u2019s ever received is a Lucio Fontana painting. A white Fontana canvas can be seen above a fireplace in a 2022 Vogue<\/em> tour of her home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/kim-kardashian-first-auction-purchase-monet-painting-1234804238\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/GettyImages-2300759461.jpg?w=1024″] In Citizen Kim, Jonathan Van Meter\u2019s biography of Kim Kardashian, the author reveals that the billionaire reality TV star and Skims founder owns a painting by Claude Monet. In an excerpt published by The Hollywood Reporter, Van Meter writes that Kardashian bought the Monet because of Clueless, the 1995 film starring Alicia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-2228985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2228985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2228985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2228985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2228985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}