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Property from a Distinguished California Collection
Christie's is pleased to offer the following two works by Milton Avery from a Distinguished California Collection. These works are part of a selection of property including American Art, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Twentieth Century Design, Prints and Antiquities being offered at Christie's this sale season that illustrate a key distillation of the collectors' 30-year love affair with art and exemplify the honed and insightful eye of true connoisseurs.
Rich in both color and form, the aesthetic of these California collectors reflects a total embrace of the major art movements since the 1950s. A collection that encompasses art spanning from Avery's modernist Hint of Autumn (1954) to Helen Frankenthaler's Abstract Expressionist Green Arena (1965) as well as Eric Fischl's figurative Questionable Pleasure #1 (1994) attests to this fact. Their wide-ranging aesthetic is informed equally by close friendships with luminaries such as Frank Lloyd Wright as it is by their own innate sense for talent and quality irrespective of period or genre. It is with great pleasure that we are able to offer property from this superb collection, which demonstrates a unique passion for collecting art of the second half of the 20th Century.
Milton Avery (1885-1965)
Beached Boats
Details
Milton Avery (1885-1965)
Beached Boats
signed 'Milton Avery' (lower left)--signed again, dated '1938,' and inscribed with title (on the reverse)
watercolor on paper
22½ x 30¾ in. (57.2 x 78.1 cm.)
Beached Boats
signed 'Milton Avery' (lower left)--signed again, dated '1938,' and inscribed with title (on the reverse)
watercolor on paper
22½ x 30¾ in. (57.2 x 78.1 cm.)
Provenance
[With]Grace Borgenicht Gallery, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1984.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1984.
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