American Art

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Property from the Collection of Carl and Estelle Reiner

Milton Avery

Feeding

Auction Closed

November 22, 10:23 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Carl and Estelle Reiner

Milton Avery

1885 - 1965

Feeding


signed Milton Avery and dated 1944 (lower left); also bears inscription (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

canvas: 48 by 36 inches (121.9 by 91.4 cm)

framed: 54 by 42 inches (137.2 by 106.7 cm)


This lot is accompanied by a letter of opinion from the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, New York.

Grace Borgenicht Gallery, Inc., New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above
Detroit, Michigan, Donald Morris Gallery, Milton Avery: Oil Paintings, The Middle Years, 1941-1949, January-February 1971, no. 3, p. 3, illustrated
Austin, Texas, The University of Texas Art Museum; Summit, New Jersey, Summit Art Center; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Milton Avery, Drawings and Paintings, December 1796-June 1977, pp. 13, 54
New York, Katonah Gallery, Milton Avery: The Late Years, July-September 1977
Sarasota, Florida, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Milton Avery: Retrospective Exhibition, September-October 1977
Wichita, Kansas, Wichita State University, Edwin Ulrich Museum, Milton Avery: Paintings and Prints, November 1977-January 1978
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Milton Avery, September-December 1982, no. 42, p. 62, illustrated