Lot Essay
The present work likely depicts the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec, Canada, where Avery traveled in the summer of 1938.
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Girl with Fish
Details
Milton Avery (1885-1965)
Girl with Fish
signed 'Milton Avery' (lower left)
oil on canvas
28 x 36 in. (71.1 x 91.4 cm.)
Painted in 1939.
Girl with Fish
signed 'Milton Avery' (lower left)
oil on canvas
28 x 36 in. (71.1 x 91.4 cm.)
Painted in 1939.
Provenance
The artist.
Milton Avery Trust.
Private collection, New York.
Knoedler & Company, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2003.
Milton Avery Trust.
Private collection, New York.
Knoedler & Company, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2003.
Literature
K. Wilkin, Milton Avery: Paintings of Canada, Kingston, Ontario, 1986, pp. 20, 34, 40, no. 20, illustrated.
Exhibited
Montreal, Canada, Theo. Waddington, Inc., The Gaspé by Milton Avery, March 4-27, 1982.
Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art, Three American Artists in Quebec--Winslow Homer, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Milton Avery, October 18-December 2, 1984, no. 14 (as Girl with the Fish).
Toronto, Ontario, Art Gallery of Ontario, and elsewhere, Milton Avery: Paintings of Canada, February 7-April 13, 1986, no. 20.
Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art, Three American Artists in Quebec--Winslow Homer, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Milton Avery, October 18-December 2, 1984, no. 14 (as Girl with the Fish).
Toronto, Ontario, Art Gallery of Ontario, and elsewhere, Milton Avery: Paintings of Canada, February 7-April 13, 1986, no. 20.