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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 20, 2014 | Sotheby's | New York | American Art | 33 | $****** - ****** | Double Wave | |||
Dec 3, 1997 | Sotheby's | New York | American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture | 190 | $****** - ****** | Double wave |
paintings
90.8 x 147.3 cm (35.75 x 57.99 in)
oil on canvas
signed Milton Avery and dated 1955 (lower left); also signed, titled, dated and inscribed "Double Wave"/by/Milton Avery/1955/ 36 x 58 on the reverse; also inscribed "Double Wave" by Milton Avery on the tacking edge
Frederick Rudolph, Jr., Williamstown, Massachusetts (acquired from the artist) Rosa Esman Gallery, New York Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York Arthur E. Smith, New York The Andrew Crispo Collection (sold:
Sotheby's, New York, December 3, 1997, lot 190, illustrated)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale
Houston, Texas, Museum of Fine Arts, Milton Avery, June-July 1956, no. 12 Williamstown, Massachusetts, Williams College Museum of Art,Pictures from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Rudolph, Jr.,October 1971, no. 3 New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery,The World of Milton Avery: An American Master, September-October 1980, no. 11 New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute; Fort Worth, Texas, Fort Worth Art Museum; Buffalo, New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Denver, Colorado, Denver Art Museum; Minneapolis, Minnesota, Walker Art Center,Milton Avery, September 1982-October 1983, no. 115 New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery,American and European Paintings of the 19th and 20th Centuries, July-September 1984, no. 9 New York, Canova and Rittenhouse Fine Art Gallery,A Selection of 20th Century Art: Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, November 1991-January 1992, no. 4
Hilton Kramer,Milton Avery: Paintings 1930-1960, New York, 1962, p. 28, no. 42, illustrated Barbara Haskell, Milton Avery, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1982, illustrated fig. 115, p. 141 Andrew Crispo Gallery, American and European Paintings of the 19th and 20th Centuries, New York, 1982, no. 9, illustrated Canova and Rittenhouse Fine Art Gallery, A Selection of 20th Century Art: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, New York, 1991, no. 4,illustrated Robert Hobbs, Ph.D., "Milton Avery: Double Wave," unpublished essay, January 22, 2013, a copy of which will accompany this lot
