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Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
ERNIE BARNES (1938 - 2009) The Maestro.
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.
Provenance: the artist, Los Angeles; the collection of Samella Lewis, Los Angeles; the estate of George F. & Alma J. Cameron, Los Angeles.
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.
