Milton Avery (1885-1965)
Lot 74Property from a Private Collection, New York

Milton Avery (1885-1965)

Summer Sketchers and Autumn Fields: A Double-Sided Work

Fermé22 May 2019

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Milton Avery (1885-1965)
Summer Sketchers and Autumn Fields: A Double-Sided Work
Summer Sketchers, signed and dated 'Milton Avery/1948' (lower right); Autumn Fields, signed 'Milton Avery' (lower left)
watercolor and pencil on paper
22 ½ x 31 in. (57.2 x 78.7 cm.)
Summer Sketchers, executed in 1948; Autumn Fields, executed circa 1936.

The artist.
Estate of the above.
Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, acquired from the above, 1983.
Private collection, Pennsylvania.
[With]DC Moore Gallery, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1999.

Note du spécialiste

Summer Sketchers likely depicts Pemaquid Point, Maine, where Milton Avery spent the summer in 1948. Earlier, Avery executed Autumn Fields in Vermont circa 1936, where the artist spent six summers with his family from 1935-1943.