"It speaks to the fact that when Ernie first started his career as a painter, he didn't find support within the traditional artistic structure or gallery system," Fitzgerald tells The Art Newspaper. "It was the people in the entertainment, music and athletic industries that supported him. He was his own dealer and advocate."
"Rocky occupies such a large space in American popular culture," gallery founder Andrew Kreps says. "I think the impulse was that [Stallone] just wanted [for the painting] to go into the world."
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