Feb 14, 2013 - Sale 2303

Sale 2303 - Lot 92

Price Realized: $ 19,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 25,000 - $ 35,000
ERNIE BARNES (1938 - 2009)
Setting the Game Rules.

Acrylic on cotton canvas, circa 1975. 1016x762 mm; 40x30 inches. Signed in acrylic, lower right.

Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private collection, Los Angeles; thence by descent to a private collection.

Setting the Game Rules is a colorful, large canvas by Ernie Barnes of a street football scene, a subject also found in the artist's painting The Game Plan.