'Sugar Shack' Patg Used For Marv Gaye's 'I Want You' Sold for $15.3M - Okayplayer

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A forthg exhibn on Ernie Barn is set to scend upon Los Angel, featurg works like his ver for Marv Gaye’s ‘I Want You.’

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RENOWNED "SUGAR SHACK" PATG ED FOR MARV GAYE ALBUM ARTWORK SELLS FOR $15.3 LN

The remarkable story of how Ernie Barn' work beme ver art for Marv Gaye's album "I Want You" and a regular prence on the TV's "Good Tim."? * marvin gaye i want you painting *

They all wa for their moment wh Barn’ work, a piece that entered pop-culture nscns after appearg on the 1970s s “Good Tim” and as the ver art to Marv Gaye’s 1976 album, “I Want You.

”“The Sugar Shack” ascend to pop culture by Barn played a game of basketball wh Gaye, the soul sger ught a glimpse of Barn’ patg his r. “He went crazy and he was like I have to have this, ” Cooks gmented the patg to clu referenc to Gaye’s mic, and the work beme the ver of his “I Want You” album 1976.

Marv Gaye ed Barn’ patg ‘Sugar Shack’ for his 1971 album ‘I Want You. Marv Gaye, ‘I Want You’ - Photo: Courty of Motown Rerds. The artist is celebrated for a number of important works, most notably the ver art for Marv Gaye’s groundbreakg 1971 album I Want You.

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Gaye, who released an album pretty much every year sce the 1960s, slowed down the mid-70s. Followg his stylistic rebirth at the start of the , the once prolific Gaye creasgly began to agonize over new material.

After a three-year gap, Gaye emerged 1976 wh his 14th solo album, releasg at a time when the clubs were eher mblg to the sounds of punk or shakg unr the weight of bodi on the dis dancefloor. Not that Gaye red. As s ver art, a 1971 patg by Ernie Barn, entled Sugar Shack, ma abundantly clear, there was no room for manver between Gaye’s erotic fantasi and the barely supprsed mands of his urg.

Ernie Barn patg "The Sugar Shack, " which was ed on the ver of 1976 Marv Gaye album I Want You, has sold for $15.

Ernie Barn patg "The Sugar Shack," which was ed on the ver of 1976 Marv Gaye album 'I Want You,' has sold for $15.3 ln. * marvin gaye i want you painting *

1976 Marv Gaye album is havg a b of rurgence. This is spe creatg album vers for Marv Gaye, receivg a missned by Kanye Wt and beg named the official artist of the 1984 Olympics. The work was famoly ed on the ver of Marv Gaye’s album I Want You, released that same year.

”Barn had close ti to the mic world, pecially after Gaye ed his patg on the album ver.

A famo Black patg that was featured as one of Marv Gaye’s album vers jt sold for lns at an ctn. To date, the portra has bee a cultural staple and might be regnized om legendary soul sger, Marv Gaye’s 1976 I Want You album.

The work of the football player who beme a pater is fally beg celebrated, om his Olympics artwork to his Marv Gaye album ver * marvin gaye i want you painting *

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'Sugar Shack' artwork ed for Marv Gaye album sells for $15.3 ln.

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