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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 5, 2017 | Swann Galleries | New York | African-American Fine Art | 95 | $****** - ****** | The Maestro |
paintings
61 x 45.7 cm (24.02 x 17.99 in)
Acrylic on cotton canvas
Signed in acrylic, lower right recto. With the artist's ink copyright stamp, verso
The artist, Los Angeles
the collection of Samella Lewis, Los Angeles
the estate of George F. & Alma J. Cameron, Los Angeles.
Acrylic on cotton canvas, with artist built frame, circa 1978. 610x457 mm; 24x18 inches (canvas); 762x635 mm; 30x25 inches (with frame). Signed in acrylic, lower right recto. With the artist's ink copyright stamp, verso.
Ernie Barnes framed his early paintings with the distressed wood from a weathered picket fence in honor of his late father - inspired by the fenced backyard of his childhood home in Durham, NC. In his autobiography, Barnes wrote, "I placed a painting against the fence and stood away and had a look. I was startled at the marriage between the old wood fence and the painting. It was perfect. In tribute...Daddy's fence would hug all my paintings in a prestigious New York gallery." Courtesy of the artist's estate.
