After the U.S. Congress voted to release all of the files connected to the late, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's case in late 2025, social media users began recirculating a painting of former President Bill Clinton purportedly found in the financier's New York City apartment.
The painting is authentic — as in, Australian-American artist Petrina Ryan-Kield genuinely created it using oil on canvas, not with artificial intelligence or photo editing tools. As of this writing, prints of the painting, titled "Parsing Bill," were available to purchase from the prominent online art gallery Saatchi.
Ryan-Kield reportedly told Artnet News that Clinton's attire in the painting is a reference to Monica Lewinsky's blue dress, a central part of the media circus around his affair with his former intern, who later became an anti-cyberbullying activist. According to ArtNet, Ryan-Kield said the painting, as part of a series of work she made, was supposed to be about "how opposition parties caricature presidents."
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