Ernie Barnes’s ‘Sugar Shack’ Painting Brings Big Price at Auction
By Robin Pogrebin Ernie Barnes’s ‘Sugar Shack’ Painting Brings Big Price at Auction An iconic image sells for $15.3 million at Christie’s to Bill Perkins, an energy trader, who says he’s been waiting his whole life to buy that work of art. Ernie Barnes’s most famous painting, “The Sugar Shack,” an exultant dancing scene that …
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