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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 16, 2019 | Christie's | New York | Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale | 51B | $****** - ****** | White Moon |
paintings
127 x 96.5 cm (50 x 38 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'Milton Avery 1957' (lower right)
Milton Avery Trust, New York
Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale
Private collection, California, 1999
Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale
Private collection, Illinois, 2003
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago and New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2009
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Milton Avery, February-March 1960, p. 26, no. 26 (illustrated).
Woodstock Artists Association, Milton Avery Memorial Exhibition, September 1965, no. 6.
Washington, D.C., Esther Stuttman Gallery, Milton Avery, April-May 1966.
Birmingham Museum of Art, Milton Avery, October-November 1968, no. 6 (illustrated).
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, National Collection of Fine Arts; New York, Brooklyn Museum; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Milton Avery, December 1969-May 1970, no. 87 (illustrated).
Keene, Louise E. Thorne Memorial Art Gallery, Keene State College; Manchester, Currier Gallery of Art; Williamstown, Williams College Museum of Art, The Sea by Milton Avery, September-October 1971, no. 20.
Boca Raton Center for the Arts, Milton Avery: Major Works, January 1982.
Corpus Christi, Firebird Gallery, Avery at the Sea, June-July 1983.
New York, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, Inc., Milton Avery: Seascapes, January 1987, n.p. (illustrated).
Miami, Center for the Fine Arts, Milton Avery: A Singular Vision, February-April 1988, pp. 12 and 41, no. 26 (illustrated in color).
New York, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, Inc., Milton Avery: Sun and Moon Paintings, January-February 1992.
New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Milton Avery: Pictures Never Shown, March-April 1996.
Scottsdale and Sante Fe, Riva Yares Gallery, Milton Avery: Major Paintings 1929-1962, March-July 1999, p. 32 (illustrated).
Milwaukee Art Museum; West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, Milton Avery: The Late Paintings, November 2001-May 2002, pp. 11, 77 and 104, pl. 32 (illustrated in color).
Amagansett, Karma, Before Midnight, August 2016.
M. Swenson, "Milton Avery," Arts Yearbook, no. 3, 1959, p. 112.
R. M. Coates, "The Art Galleries: Milton Avery and Lee Gatch," New Yorker, New York, 20 February 1960.
F. Getlein, "Art: Impressive Exhibit of Milton Avery’s Work," Washington Sunday Star, 3 April 1966.
B. L. Grad and O. J. Rothrock, Milton Avery Monotypes, Princeton, 1977, p. 10.
B. L. Grad and S. M. Avery, Milton Avery, Royal Oak, 1981, p. 18.
Milton Avery, exh. cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1982, pp. 21 and 24, no. 9 (illustrated).
R. Hobbs, Milton Avery, New York, 1990, pp. 10, 204 and 209 (illustrated in color).
Milton Avery: The Late Paintings, exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Museum, 2001, pp. 11, 77 and 104, pl. 32 (illustrated in color).
Milton Avery Nudes, 1930-1963, exh. cat., Boca Raton Museum of Art, 2005.
W. C. Agee, et al., Milton Avery: Early Works on Paper and Late Paintings, New York, 2018, pp. 15, 19 and 33 (illustrated in color).
signed and dated 'Milton Avery 1957' (lower right)
oil on canvas
50 x 38 in. (127 x 96.5 cm.)
Painted in 1957.
