House GOP presses gallery owner on Hunter Biden art sales

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., demanded on Monday that art gallery owner Georges Bergès provide information about the purchasers of first son Hunter Biden's artwork.

Bergès owns the Georges Bergès Gallery, where the younger Biden has showcased his works. Republicans have long raised concerns over the venture, pointing to the substantial sums he receives for his pieces as suspect. Comer, in a letter to Bergès's attorney, William Pittard, demanded that the gallery owner sit for a transcribed interview and renewed his requests for information on these business dealings.

The purchasers of Biden's art remain anonymous, an element of mystery surrounding the gallery that has only fueled Republican efforts to shed light on the matter.

"The Committee seeks information about the unidentified purchasers of Mr. Biden’s artwork and the non-public agreement with the White House concerning the same, among other items," Comer wrote, highlighting the purchase prices of the artworks and the ethics concerns surrounding the sales.

"For instance, the prices of the artwork—reportedly ranging between $75,000 and $500,000—even caused the Obama-era head of the Office of Government Ethics, Mr. Walter Shaub, to raise these ethics issues publicly," he continued.

"Instead of fostering transparency, Mr. Bergès and Mr. Biden struck an opaque arrangement that demands congressional oversight," the Kentucky Republican asserted. "The Committee is reviewing legislative solutions that address the ethics and money laundering issues raised by certain high-end art deals, and your information is critical to our investigation."

The Committee set a deadline of March 27 for the gallery owner to provide documentation on his communications with Biden and the White House, as well as records of the artworks sales. They further seek an interview to be held no later than April 3.

Comer's letter to Pittard is the latest in a string of information requests the Oversight chair has dispatched as part of a broader GOP effort to investigate the Biden family's business dealings and the White House in general.

Ben Whedon is an editor and reporter for Just the News. Follow him on Twitter.