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Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
ERNIE BARNES (1938 - 2009) Untitled (The Hook Shot).
Acrylic on cotton canvas, circa 1971. 406x508 mm; 16x20 inches. Signed in acrylic, lower right recto. Signed and inscribed "By special commission. An original representation" in faded ink, verso.
Provenance: private collection, CA.
This is a variation on the popular Ernie Barnes subject of a soaring, dunking basketball player, made famous by the similar and highly-reproduced 1971 painting High Aspirations.
