American Art
American Art
Property from the Collection of Carolyn & Roger Horchow, Dallas, Texas
Milton Avery
Swimming Hole
Auction Closed
December 11, 04:21 PM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from the Collection of Carolyn & Roger Horchow, Dallas, Texas
Milton Avery
1885 - 1965
Swimming Hole
signed Milton Avery (lower right); also inscribed Swimming Hole/by/Milton Avery/28x36/1940 (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
28 by 36 inches
(71.1 by 91.4 cm)
Painted in 1940.
This lot is accompanied by a letter of authenticity from the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, New York.
Ulysses Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1991
Milton Avery and his family traveled to Jamaica, Vermont for the first time in the summer of 1935 and were immediately enamored by the tranquility and isolation of the picturesque environment. They returned to the area several times over the next eight years and Vermont subsequently became one of the artist's primary subjects. Avery's paintings and watercolors from this period capture his family's summer activities and his personal response to the bucolic landscape of the Green Mountains, which allowed him to fully experiment with color and approach abstraction. In Swimming Hole, Avery depicts a jovial scene of bathers enjoying a local pond with hues of blue and grey, arbitrarily coloring the scene that the had witnessed firsthand.