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MILTON AVERY (1885-1965)

Lot 176
10.11.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 839061
Lot 176 | MILTON AVERY (1885-1965)
Estimate value
$ 300 000 – 500 000
MILTON AVERY (1885-1965)

Cactus

signed and dated 'Milton Avery 1946' (lower left)

oil on canvas

32 x 44 in. (81.3 x 111.8 cm.)

Painted in 1946





Provenance

Milton Avery Trust, New York.

Knoedler & Co., New York.

Private collection, New York (acquired from the above, 1999); sale, Christie's, New York, 30 November 2011, lot 7.

Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.



Literature

R. Hobbs, Milton Avery, New York, 1990, pp. 146 and 151 (illustrated in color, p. 146).



Exhibited

University of Houston, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery; Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno de Mexico; Museo de Monterrey; Caracas, El Museo de Bellas Artes and Newport Beach, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Milton Avery: Avery in Mexico and After, August 1981-July 1982, p. 21 (illustrated in color).

New York, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, Milton Avery: Mexico, February-March 1983, illustrated.

Memphis, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens; Santa Fe, Gerald Peters Gallery; Museum of Fine Arts of St. Petersburg; Montgomery, Blount, Inc.; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Art Center; Chattanooga, Hunter Museum of Art and Tucson Museum of Art, Milton Avery's Mexico, April 1984-June 1985, pp. 13 and 32, no. 17 (illustrated in color, p. 32).



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