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ERNIE BARNES (1938 - 2009)
Lot 141 Property of an Important American Collection

ERNIE BARNES (1938 - 2009)

Storm Dance

Closed13 May 2022

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USD 2,340,000

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ERNIE BARNES (1938 - 2009)
Storm Dance
signed ‘ERNIE BARNES’ (lower right)
acrylic on canvas, in artist's frame
48 3⁄4 x 24 3⁄4 in. (123.8 x 62.9 cm.)
Painted in 1977.

Private collection, Los Angeles, acquired directly from the artist
Private collection, Los Angeles, 1986
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

“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.” J. D’Arcy, “Preface,” in E. Barnes, From Pads to Palette, Waco, 1995, p. 5