Placeholder while article actions load Like clockwork, John Kinnear and his wife Audrey would go to the same restaurant each afternoon and sit at the table by the circular window. Kinnear would order only one thing: a grilled cheese sandwich. “I could not convince Mr. Kinnear to have anything else,” […]
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Maud Lewis painting once traded for a grilled cheese sandwich sells for record $350K
A Maud Lewis portray the moment traded for a grilled cheese sandwich 50 many years in the past in London, Ont., has bought for $350,000 at auction. It marks the first time a portray by the artist has exceeded a sale of $100,000. The past document price tag for her function […]
‘Good Times” ‘Sugar Shack’ painting sells for $15.2 million
“The Sugar Shack,” the dance-hall painting manufactured famed for showing up in the credits of the 1970s sitcom “Good Times,” bought at auction Thursday for a history-breaking $15.2 million. Ernie Barnes’ 1976 acrylic-on-canvas piece showing jubilant Black dancers in a club was also highlighted in the Evans’ family condominium all […]
Auction Record: Iconic ‘Sugar Shack’ Painting by Ernie Barnes Sells for Whopping $15.3 Million
ON THURSDAY NIGHT, Christie’s 20th Century Evening Sale in New York featured 42 lots, premium works of art by a variety of famed artists such as Ruth Asawa, Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet, Jackson Pollock, William De Kooning, Joan Mitchell, and Andy Warhol. The selections included two paintings by African […]