Live Auction 2561Important American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture
Milton Avery (1885-1965)
Lot 63

Milton Avery (1885-1965)

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Closed16 May 2012

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USD 37,500

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Milton Avery (1885-1965)
Wave
signed and dated 'Milton Avery 1945' (lower left)
watercolor on paper
22 x 31 in. (55.9 x 78.7 cm.)

Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York.
Private collection, Florida, acquired from the above.
By descent.
Sale: Samuel T. Freeman & Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 24 June 2007, lot 90.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Specialist note

According to the Milton Avery Trust, the present work depicts the coast of Gloucester, Massachusetts where Milton Avery spent his summers with his wife, Sally Michel, between 1920 and 1945. Beyond its longstanding repute as an artistic community, Gloucester also held sentimental significance for Avery as it was there where he first met Sally Michel in 1921.