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I found this on the web. It's a better picture of the famous picture in the King Cole... from Newyorkology.com "Now valued at $12 million, the three-paned mural was originally commissioned for John Jacob Astor Knickerbocker hotel on Times Square. When the Knickerbocker was converted into offices (though it was purchased last summer with the idea of turning it back into a hotel,) the painting was moved to the St. Regis in the mid-1930’s.
Besides name-dropping the hotel's legendary guests -- Ernest Hemingway, Marlene Dietrich, Salvador Dalí, Marilyn Monroe Joe DiMaggio, John Lennon and Yoko Ono -- the Times relates another legend:
The legend, repeated by generations of bar patrons, is that the king’s sheepish grin, and the startled reactions of his knights, were occasioned by the flatulence of the monarch. Some versions of the this tale, passed on through the decades, hold that there was a satirical competition among the well-known artists of Parrish’s era to find a way to depict this condition in a painting, a contest that Parrish is reputed to have won.
The bar is also famous as the home of the bloody mary. The drink is said "to have been brought to the St. Regis by Fernand Petiot, who invented it in Paris," as the Times puts it."
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I found this on the web. It's a better picture of the famous picture in the King Cole... from Newyorkology.com "Now valued at $12 million, the three-paned mural was originally commissioned for John Jacob Astor Knickerbocker hotel on Times Square. When the Knickerbocker was converted into offices (though it was purchased last summer with the idea of turning it back into a hotel,) the painting was moved to the St. Regis in the mid-1930’s.
Besides name-dropping the hotel's legendary guests -- Ernest Hemingway, Marlene Dietrich, Salvador Dalí, Marilyn Monroe Joe DiMaggio, John Lennon and Yoko Ono -- the Times relates another legend:
The legend, repeated by generations of bar patrons, is that the king’s sheepish grin, and the startled reactions of his knights, were occasioned by the flatulence of the monarch. Some versions of the this tale, passed on through the decades, hold that there was a satirical competition among the well-known artists of Parrish’s era to find a way to depict this condition in a painting, a contest that Parrish is reputed to have won.
The bar is also famous as the home of the bloody mary. The drink is said "to have been brought to the St. Regis by Fernand Petiot, who invented it in Paris," as the Times puts it."