Milton Avery (1885-1965)

Wave

Details

Milton Avery (1885-1965)
Wave
signed and dated 'Milton Avery 1945' (lower left)
watercolor on paper
22 x 31 in. (55.9 x 78.7 cm.)

Provenance

Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York.
Private collection, Florida, acquired from the above.
By descent.
Sale: Samuel T. Freeman & Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 24 June 2007, lot 90.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Literature

Whitney Museum of American Art, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, exhibition checklist, New York, 1947, n.p., no. 78.

Exhibited

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Watercolors and Drawings, March 11-April 17, 1947, no. 78.

Lot Essay

According to the Milton Avery Trust, the present work depicts the coast of Gloucester, Massachusetts where Milton Avery spent his summers with his wife, Sally Michel, between 1920 and 1945. Beyond its longstanding repute as an artistic community, Gloucester also held sentimental significance for Avery as it was there where he first met Sally Michel in 1921.

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