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ERNIE BARNES (1938 - 2009)
Lot 306

ERNIE BARNES (1938 - 2009)

A Moral Imperative

Closed1 December 2022

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HKD 1,071,000

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ERNIE BARNES (1938 - 2009)
A Moral Imperative
signed 'ERNIE BARNES' (lower right)
acrylic on canvas
91.5 x 121.8 cm. (36 x 48 in.)
Painted in 2007

UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

'I am interested in the social, even the propagandistic angle of painting that will say what I have to say. Paint is the only weapon I have with which to fight what I resent.' - Ernie Barnes