'I wish there was a drink named after me,' Francesco Clemente said one day to New York chef Daniel Humm. The two met a few years back through art dealer Vito Schnabel and have since become close friends. 'Just a drink?' Humm responded with a more ambitious suggestion: 'How about an entire bar?'

What began as a pipe dream came to fruition last month with the opening of Clemente Bar on the upper floor of Humm's Michelin-starred vegan restaurant, Eleven Madison Park. Ushering guests in is Clemente's first permanent artwork: a ceiling fresco depicting a constellation of figures around an all-seeing eye, while at the bar is a sprawling, erotic frieze in gold, red, and black. On the opposite wall, a second mural features a festive procession.