Live Auction 16720The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller: Art of the Americas, Evening Sale
Milton Avery (1885-1965)
Lot 422 The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller

Milton Avery (1885-1965)

Pigs No. 2

Closed9 May 2018

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Milton Avery (1885-1965)
Pigs No. 2
signed 'Milton Avery' (lower left)--signed again, dated '1939' and inscribed with title (on the reverse)
oil on canvas laid down on board
15 7/8 x 19 7/8 in. (40.3 x 50.5 cm.)
Painted in 1939.

Milton Avery Trust.
Chapellier Galleries, Inc., New York, 1982.
Private collection, acquired from the above, 1982.
Sotheby's, New York, 6 December 1984, lot 232, sold by the above.
Acquired by the late owners from the above.

Specialist note

According to the artist's wife, Sally Michel Avery, the present work "stemmed from a summer in Connecticut when we spent a great deal of time at a neighboring farm sketching cows, pigs, and other farm animals." (unpublished letter, January 23, 1985, as quoted in The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Art of the Western Hemisphere, vol. II, New York, 1988, p. 132)