Live Auction 20979Modern American Art
SALLY MICHEL AVERY (1902-2003)
Lot 142

SALLY MICHEL AVERY (1902-2003)

Curious Cows

Closed21 April 2023

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SALLY MICHEL AVERY (1902-2003)
Curious Cows
signed and dated 'Sally Michel/1977' (lower right)—signed and dated again and inscribed with title (on the reverse)
oil on canvasboard
18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 60.9 cm.)
Painted in 1977.

The artist.
Private collection, Yucaipa, California.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2011.

Specialist note

The present work was painted in the hamlet of Bearsville, New York and according to Robert Hobbs, "depends as much on Gauguin's Jacob Wrestling with the Angel as it does on direct observation." ("Sally Avery: the Other Avery," Women's Art Journal, vol. 8, no. 2, Fall 1987-Winter 1988, p. 11)