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 Jimmy Ernst   (1920-1984)

  Black on Black
  • oil on masonite, 1964
  • signed and dated 64 lower right recto
  • image size 19⅞" x 23⅞" (50.5 x 60.6 cm.)
...I am not entitled to say what his best painting was, although I have my favorite - a triptych, black on black, executed so meticulously that the paint might have been laid on by a jeweler using a magnifying glass.  I will dare to say that his spiritual masterpiece was to live without hating anyone - to forgive no one, since there was no one to forgive.
     -Kurt Vonnegut, TRIBUTE TO JIMMY ERNST
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