Ernie Barnes Stole the Show at Christie's With His $15.3 Million Painting. Here Are 3 Things You Might Not Know About 'The Sugar Shack’ | Artnet News
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Ernie Barnes’s famous masterpiece, The Sugar Shack, is on loan to the Blanton Museum of Art for a full year from Houston collectors Bill and Lara Perkins, who acquired it at a record-smashing auction last year for $15.3 million! The Sugar Shack became a Black cultural icon after the first version was featured on the cover of the 1976 Marvin Gaye album, I Want You. That same year, Barnes created this second version, which garnered wider fame when it was added to the end credits of the groundbreak
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Lyra on Instagram: "The Sugar Shack (1976) by Ernie Barnes #art #arthistory #painting A bit about Ernie Barnes: He was born in 1938 in North Carolina, where he attended a racially segregated school as a child. Although he had a passion for art as an adolescent, this interest initially took a back seat to his professional football career. Sports provided him with opportunities that the art world at the time could not, particularly in helping him navigate the racial disparities of the era. Barnes
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