The portrait the bank engraves of itself, drawn for the people who made their money on a chain
A whale in a hoodie, drawn like a banknote
A movement that set out to abolish the bank now buys the bank’s furniture, and we think that is the best subject an engraver has been handed in years. So we gave it a sitter, and drew him the way the bank drew its own: every tone a line, one green-black ink, and one orange coin as the only colour. The Whale sits for ten pictures in the rooms money builds for itself: the vault, the private bank, the superyacht, the marina at noon, the trading room at four in the morning.
Each picture is printed by our lab as a giclée on canvas, in an edition of twenty-five. When a copy sells, its number is struck on the ledger under the picture with its date, and never with a name. A refunded number is retired, not sold again.
- Gallery canvas, 30 × 45 in
- $1,800
- Salon canvas, 40 × 60 in
- $3,200
- Paper proof, 24 × 36 in
- $650
- The Genesis canvas, with your plaque
- from $2,400
- Edition
- 25 of each
- Delivery inside the United States
- Included
- Copies sold to date
- 0
- A dollar, in sats, at the 23 May 2026 close
- 1,305
The Whale Series
Ten portraits · 25 of each
Cold Storage
Seed Phrase
The Halving
Never Selling
Whale Watching
Private Banking
Gas Fees
Proof of Work
The Genesis Block
Laser Eyes, 4 A.M.
Prices are in dollars and paid by card. The sats figure is the same price at the last close in our price file, so you can read it in the unit you think in.
The Genesis Canvas
A commission set from one date
The day you bought, set in type
Choose a day. The empty cartouche under the picture is set with that date, the height of the first bitcoin block mined after midnight UTC, and that day’s closing price in dollars. The block comes from mempool.space and the close from the Coin Metrics daily file, so anyone standing in front of the canvas can check all three.
Pick 3 January 2009 and the plaque reads block 0, with no market price yet, because the price file’s first close is 18 July 2010. The proof shows your plaque at true size before you pay.
Ask For A Viewing
A person answersWrite with a piece, a size or a date. We answer every letter ourselves, and we would rather talk you out of the wrong size than sell it to you.