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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 9, 2020 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist, Modern & Contemporary Art | An Evening Sale | 14 | $****** - ****** | Sunset Sea |
paintings
123.2 x 183.2 cm (48.5 x 72.13 in)
oil on canvas
The artist
Milton Avery Trust
Private collection
Acquired by the present owner from the above, circa 2009
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Milton Avery, February 3-March 13 1960; Traveled under the auspices of the American Federation of Arts. no. 32, p. 26, illustrated (as Sunset on a Quiet Sea)
Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Paintings by Milton Avery, May 5-31, 1964, n.p.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970, October 18, 1969-February 8, 1970, no. 17, pp. 41, 120, illustrated
Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution; Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Museum; Columbus, Ohio, The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Milton Avery, December 12 1969-May 31, 1970, no. 32, illustrated, n.p.
New York, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, Milton Avery: Seascapes, January 3-31, 1987, illustrated, n.p.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Milton Avery: Six Paintings, January-April 1991
London, Waddington Galleries, Milton Avery Late Work: Landscapes and Seascapes, 1951-1963, September 12-October 6, 2001
New York, Knoedler & Company, Coming to Light: Avery Gottlieb Rothko - Provincetown Summers 1957-1961, May 2-August 15, 2002, no. 5, cat. no.MA3, pp., 32, 33, 94, illustrated
Hank Burchard, “Well-Deserved Niche for Avery,” The Washington Post, January 10, 1991, illustrated
Hilton Kramer, “The Summer of ’57 with Milton Avery, Gottlieb, Rothko,” The Observer, May 13, 2002
Yares Gallery, Milton Avery Early Works on Paper + Late Paintings, New York, 2018, p. 39, illustrated
