Live Auction 17661American Art
Milton Avery (1885-1965)
Lot 5

Milton Avery (1885-1965)

Dark Sea, Pale Beach

Closed20 November 2019

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USD 200,000

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Milton Avery (1885-1965)
Dark Sea, Pale Beach
signed and dated 'Milton Avery/1944' (lower right)
watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper
22 ½ x 31 in. (57.2 x 78.7 cm.)
Executed in 1944.

Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
MacKinley Helm, Santa Barbara, California, circa 1956.
Estate of the above, 1963.
Private collection, El Dorado, Arizona.
Christie's, New York, 10 November 1988, lot 109, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Specialist note


The present work likely depicts an area near Gloucester, Massachusetts, where the Avery family spent the summer of 1944.