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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 18, 2016 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 42 | $****** - ****** | Excellent | SEA & SAND DUNES |
paintings
101.6 x 152.4 cm (40 x 60 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 55, signed, titled and dated 1955 on the reverse
Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1978
New York, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, Milton Avery and His Friends, January - February 1978, no. 2, illustrated
Houston, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston; Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno de Mexico; Monterrey, 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. 56, illustrated
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute; Fort Worth, Fort Worth Art Museum; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Denver, The Denver Art Museum; and Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Milton Avery, September 1982 - October 1983, p. 103, no. 81, illustrated in color
Springfield, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Color and Romance: One Collector’s Vision, September - November 1992 Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum and West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, Milton Avery: The Late Paintings, November 2001 - May 2002, p. 104, pl. 26, illustrated and p. 67
Hilton Kramer, “Milton Avery: Homage to an American Master,” The New York Times Magazine, August 29, 1982, p. 40, illustrated in color pp. 28-29
Marla June Price, The Paintings of Milton Avery (Ph.D. dissertation). University Michrofilms International (UMI), Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1982, pp. 185-86, no. 205, illustrated
Robert Hobbs, Milton Avery, New York, 1990, p. 23, illustrated in color
Marla Price, Milton Avery in the 1950s, Fort Worth, Texas, 1990, p. 7, fig. 4, illustrated
signed and dated 55; signed, titled and dated 1955 on the reverse
oil on canvas
40 x 60 in.
101.6 x 152.4 cm.
