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ALEC MONOPOLY USA b.1986"Will Street" OOC

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ALEC MONOPOLY USA b.1986 Will Street  OOC
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Oil on canvas, featuring Rich Uncle Pennybags. Attr. Alec Monopoly (American, b. 1986). Dated on verso "12.29.17", scribed in ink "#BRM. Will Street.", attached with a printed half $100 bill, dated "3.6.18", scribed "#BRM, Will Street". Street artist Alec Monopoly takes his name from the transaction-based board game in which players buy and sell property, accumulate money, and try to make their opponents go broke. The artist employs the character of Rich “Uncle” Pennybags, the game's suited mascot, to deliver his critique of capitalist greed. In Monopoly's tableaux, done on city surfaces or on newsprint and framed, the mustachioed character sprints with a moneybag under one arm, laments the lack of universal health care, and gets beaten by a policeman with a bully club.