--- title: Is This Donald Trump Statue Your Dream Art Piece? description: A statue of a naked Donald Trump, made by anarchist collective INDECLINE, is up for auction and expected to sell for $20,000 or more. canonical: https://time.com/5216837/trump-statue-auction/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-03-27T15:07:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:51:39.458Z og:title: Is This Donald Trump Statue Your Dream Art Piece? og:description: The naked Trump statue by an anarchist art group will go up for auction in May og:url: https://time.com/5216837/trump-statue-auction/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte97c1bbf84a8f9f7/6988a2d9a988ca5c616b9202/naked-trump-statue-union-square.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: People pose for selfies with a naked statue of U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump that was left in Union Square Park in New York og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Is This Donald Trump Statue Your Dream Art Piece? twitter:description: The naked Trump statue by an anarchist art group will go up for auction in May twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte97c1bbf84a8f9f7/6988a2d9a988ca5c616b9202/naked-trump-statue-union-square.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Is This Donald Trump Statue Just the Thing to Jazz Up Your Living Room? > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Mar 27, 2018 3:07 PM UTC  People pose for selfies with a naked statue of U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump that was left in Union Square Park in New York City on Aug. 18, 2016. People pose for selfies with a naked statue of U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump that was left in Union Square Park in New York City on Aug. 18, 2016. Brendan McDermid—Reuters  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Mar 27, 2018 3:07 PM UTC The explicit, naked [Donald Trump statues](http://time.com/4458022/donald-trump-nude-statues/) caused an [uproar](http://time.com/4459507/body-shaming-donald-trump/) when they popped up in cities around the U.S. in 2016, becoming instant targets for photography, protest and vandalism. And now one of the Trump statues — the last one standing — is getting put up for auction to the highest bidder on May 2 [by Julien’s Auctions](http://www.juliensauctions.com/press/2018/street-urban-art.html). It’s estimated to sell for $20,000 to $30,000. Julien’s Auctions announced that the unclothed Trump, titled “The Emperor Has No Balls,” is part of its lineup for the upcoming Street and Urban Art auction to take place live in Jersey City in May. Produced by anarchist art collective INDECLINE as a series of five and placed in public locations around New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Cleveland and Los Angeles just before the 2016 elections, the fleshy Trump figure will be in good company in the auction: it’s up for sale alongside works from iconic and irreverent street artists like [Banksy](http://time.com/4770403/new-banksy-mural-brexit-dover/) and Space Invader, and more traditional pop artists like [Andy Warhol](http://time.com/3656492/andy-warhol-never-before-seen-pictures/) and Keith Haring. The Trump nudes, originally designed by an artist going by the name of Ginger, were constructed of 300 pounds of clay and silicone. Although Ginger made a number of them, most were quickly removed from their guerrilla installation locations — although apparently only one was available for auction. If you’re keen on adding the Trump effigy to your home decor, you can register to bid via Julien’s [online portal](http://www.juliensauctions.com/register.html) or in person or over the phone on May 2. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5216837/trump-statue-auction/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5216837/trump-statue-auction/"},"headline":"Is This Donald Trump Statue Just the Thing to Jazz Up Your Living Room?","datePublished":"2018-03-27T15:07:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:51:39.458Z","description":"The naked Donald Trump statue is expected to sell for over $20,000","url":"https://time.com/5216837/trump-statue-auction/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Art","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte97c1bbf84a8f9f7/6988a2d9a988ca5c616b9202/naked-trump-statue-union-square.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte97c1bbf84a8f9f7/6988a2d9a988ca5c616b9202/naked-trump-statue-union-square.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"People pose for selfies with a naked statue of U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump that was left in Union Square Park in New York","caption":"People pose for selfies with a naked statue of U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump that was left in Union Square Park in New York City on Aug. 18, 2016.","creditText":"Brendan McDermid—Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5216837/trump-statue-auction/","name":"Is This Donald Trump Statue Just the Thing to Jazz Up Your Living Room?"}}]}] ```