Live Auction 19998American Art
MILTON AVERY (1885-1965)
Lot 36 Modern Icons: Property from an Important Private Collection

MILTON AVERY (1885-1965)

Rock Sitter

Closed18 November 2021

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USD 325,000

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MILTON AVERY (1885-1965)
Rock Sitter
signed and dated 'Milton Avery/1945' (lower right)
watercolor and charcoal on paper
22 1⁄2 x 31 in. (57.1 x 78.7 cm.)
Executed in 1945.

(Probably) Perls Gallery, New York.
Private collection, acquired from the above, by 1960.
Sotheby's, New York, 21 May 2003, lot 117, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Specialist note

The present work likely depicts the artist's wife Sally in Gloucester, Massachusetts.