Pail Hoops

Details

ERNIE BARNES (1938-2009)
Pail Hoops
signed 'Ernie Barnes' (lower right)
oil on canvas
47 ¼ x 23 5⁄8 in. (119.6 x 59.7 cm.)
Painted in 1974.

Provenance

Luciano Vincenzoni, Rome, 1979, acquired directly from the artist
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1995

Further Details

This work is included in the forthcoming Ernie Barnes Catalogue Raisonné. We would like to thank Luz Rodriguez for her assistance in cataloguing this work.

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Lot Essay

"By his bravura technique, his artistic finesse, his elongations and distortions, his disregard of the confinements of anatomy, his dismissal of classical spatial relationships, Barnes has transformed the everyday happenings of 20th century society into the fierce, elemental and forceful components of a new symbolism, at once barbarously powerful and exquisitely beautiful." Joan D’Arcy (J. D’Arcy, “Preface,” in E. Barnes, From Pads to Palette, Waco, 1995, p. 5).

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