A Netflix mini-series traces his journey
Delvey, whose real name is Anna Sorokin and is 31 years old, was found guilty of theft, grand theft, and financial crimes in 2019. Her thefts were so well-known that Shonda Rhimes turned them into the Netflix miniseries Inventing Anna. After serving two years at Rikers Island, Delvey was held for 17 months by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement because she had overstayed her visa. In May, she launched a solo art show called "Allegedly" from detention, which was a surprise. In October, Delvey was given a sentence of house arrest.
His drawings are mostly humorous
The drawings are simple pencil-on-paper pictures that are mostly funny and have to do with Delvey wearing designer labels. Some of the drawings are fake newspaper covers that make fun of the front page of the New York Times. They are called The Delvey Crimes or The Delvey Journal and have cartoons and captions about her own mistakes. Chris Martine, who helped start the Founders Art Club and is an art dealer, works for Delvey. He told, "She has an interesting style, but what's more important is that people are just fascinated by her," which is something that can't be seen.
The originals sold for up to $25,000
Originals of Sorokin's art have sold for $25,000, and prints were for sale for $250 each. Chloe Fineman from "Saturday Night Live" was one of the celebrities who bought an original. Last month, Sorokin and the Brooklyn art gallery The Locker Room put out four original works of art and four first-edition prints. Casey Grooms, a tech entrepreneur from San Francisco, bought a piece from "The House (Arrest) Collection." He paid $15,000 for "Prowling in Prada," an acrylic on canvas painting of Sorokin wearing a black trenchcoat, pants, high heels, a scarf, and sunglasses. The painting is 20 inches by 16 inches. Grooms said he bought this as his first piece of art because he liked the idea of Sorokin and her life story.
The art sales helped Sorokin pay her $4,250 one-bedroom East Village apartment rent for three months and get out of jail. Delvey also made a series of NFTs called "Reinventing Anna" while she was still in jail in June. The NFTs had pictures of prints that Delvey had made that were stylized versions of events from her own life. They cost 0.08 ETH, which was about $90 at the time. Delvey's art career has also run into problems with money. Julia Morrison, an artist, and writer, told The New York Post in June that she still hadn't been paid back the $8,000 she put down in March to help put on the Free Anna group show.
Jean Dubreil