Lot 110
  • 110

Milton Avery

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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Description

  • Milton Avery
  • Setting Sun
  • signed Milton Avery and dated 1958 (lower right); also inscribed "Setting Sun"/by/Milton Avery/1958 (on the reverse)
  • oil on paper mounted on Masonite 
  • 23 by 35 inches
  • (58.4 by 89 inches)

Provenance

Waddington & Gorce, Montreal, Québec
Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, Austria
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

New York, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, Milton Avery: Works on Paper, January 1962
Boston, Massachusetts, Alpha Gallery, Milton Avery, October 1973
New York, Richard York Gallery, Sunset to Dawn, 1983
New York, Ulysses Gallery; Vienna, Austria, Galerie Ulysses, Milton Avery: Land and Seascapes, May 1990, p. 55, illustrated pl. 9

Literature

Vivien Raynor, "In the Galleries," Arts Magazine, New York, January 1961, p. 54

Condition

There are original pinholes at corners and extreme edges. There are a few light surface scratches that are likely original to the artist's technique and a few pindots of surface accretion in lower left corner. Under UV: there is no apparent inpainting.
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