Lot 105
  • 105

Milton Avery

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Milton Avery
  • Roosting Gull and Lobster Pots
  • signed Milton Avery and dated 1944 (lower left)
  • watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper
  • 22 1/4 by 31 inches
  • (56.5 by 78.7 cm)

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Spanierman Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1997

Exhibited

Toronto, Canada, Marianne Friedland Gallery, Milton Avery: Major Paintings and Works on Paper, October-November 1981, illustrated

Condition

The sheet is hinged to the support at two places on reverse of top edge. There are pinholes at upper corners, remnants of artist's original tape at extreme edges and tape residue on the reverse. There are small scattered losses along the extreme edges and a 1/2 inch tear below the mat at center of bottom edge with corresponding tape on the reverse. There is a slight distortion to the sheet that is inherent to the artist's materials.
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