Ernie Barnes - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session New York Wednesday, November 16, 2022 | Phillips
  • "I am bound by the strongest ties with the organic life of all people. And being an artist had created in me the desire to continually affirm beauty. I am well aware that art has no concrete connection to beauty, but beauty is profoundly interwoven into the fabric of the individual and his environment."
    —Ernie Barnes

    • Provenance

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

    • Exhibited

      Los Angeles, California African American Museum, Ernie Barnes: A Retrospective, May 8–September 8, 2019

    • Literature

      Victoria Valentine, “Ernie Barnes Retrospective Brings Renewed Attention to African American Who Found Fame After Playing Pro Football,” Culture Type, September 6, 2019, online (illustrated)

Property from a Canadian Private Collection

117

Window Wishing

acrylic on canvas, in artist’s frame
canvas 30 x 20 in. (76.2 x 50.8 cm)
framed 35 1/4 x 24 3/4 in. (89.5 x 62.9 cm)

Painted in 1993.

Please note, Window Wishing is included in the upcoming Ernie Barnes Catalogue Raisonné by the artist’s estate. We wish to thank the Ernie Barnes Estate for their kind assistance with this work.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
$80,000 - 120,000 

Sold for $138,600

Contact Specialist

Annie Dolan
Specialist, Head of Day Sale, Morning Session
+1 212 940 1288
adolan@phillips.com

20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session

New York Auction 16 November 2022