LONDON—The shroud of mystery surrounding the hedge fund world was lifted a bit when a series of drawings and prints by British artist Adam Dant drew some 350 people to a fall opening at London gallery Robilant + Voena. The subject: the moneymen themselves, portrayed in painstaking detail by Dant, who spent six months visiting and observing hedge fund firms in Mayfair and St. James. Although laced with satire in the spirit of William Hogarth, the pictures, such as The Art of Hedge portray the real trappings of the business, says Dant—from the supermodel receptionist and the Asia-desk worker asleep in a daybed to the bags of luxury goods and the blue-chip art on the walls. “It’s very macho, these guys staking their claim in a braggadocio fashion,” says the artist. How did the financiers respond to the work? “They told me they recognized that this fiction I’d created was kind of accurate.”

"Hedge Fun" originally appeared in the January 2008 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's January 2008 Table of Contents.