01 Nov
Project Description
Description: Watercolour and ink on paper, 56.8 x 78.1 cm. Signed and dated 'Milton Avery 1953' (lower right)Catalogue note: Milton Avery is an American painter celebrated for his portraits, still life, and landscapes. Working with both oils and watercolours, he used broad swaths of luminous colour and stylised forms to capture the essence of a scene without fixating on details. When Avery moved to New York in 1925, he befriended other painters of the era, such as Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, and Barnett Newman, developing the increasingly abstract style exemplified by his late work Green Sea (1954). Exhibitions at the Phillips Collection and the Whitney Museum of American Art further solidified his reputation as a seminal American artist. The artist died in 1965. Today, Avery’s works are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Tate Gallery in London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Provenance: Acquired from Christie’s, Sale 16470, Lot 109, Invoice no. DB18011793. M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York. | Acquired by the present owner from the above, circa mid-1980s
Catalogue no.: 2018P0105-MA
