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I did a photo shoot with Pegoretti once, he said that when a customer asked him to paint a bike for the first time he told them, no he's not a painter, hes a builder. The customer said they didn't mind and he could just do what ever he wanted, so he did that as a joke. Other people asked so he kept just doing it. He maintained hes not a painter.
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I'm a fan of Pegoretti, but his "minimalist modern art" jobs leave me cold.
With nothing more than my own prejudice to go on, that strikes me as a the sort of job which some yank with more money than taste would get palmed-off with.
The painted windows on the fork crown looks particularly lazy and anachronistic: "How much am I charging? Better add some value and paint something."
I know this is the paint thread, but the frameset is a poor showcase: if it weren't for the seat stays (another superfluous "Better add some value." feature?) and head tube cable stops, I'd think that it was an Eighties frame with a neo-retro makeover: the curved fork, the threadless conversion (or whatever is going on there).
Actually, is it a 1" steerer?
And being kid's sized with 622 wheels doesn't help it's cause either.
And while I'm about it, the cabling is shit too.