Live Auction 19998American Art
MILTON AVERY (1885-1965)
Lot 6 Modern Icons: Property from an Important Private Collection

MILTON AVERY (1885-1965)

Artist by the Sea

Closed18 November 2021

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USD 187,500

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MILTON AVERY (1885-1965)
Artist by the Sea
signed and dated 'Milton/Avery/1945' (lower left)
watercolor, charcoal and ink on paper
31 x 22 1⁄2 in. (78.7 x 57.2 cm.)
Executed in 1945.

Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Doris Golden, acquired from the above.
Sotheby's, New York, 1 December 2004, lot 239, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Specialist note

The present work likely depicts a scene in Gloucester, Massachusetts.