Milton Avery

Lavender Sea

Auction Closed

May 17, 10:38 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Estate of Amy Scheuer Cohen

Milton Avery

1885 - 1965

Lavender Sea

signed Milton Avery and dated 1944 (lower right)

watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper

22¾ by 31 in.

57.8 by 78.7 cm.

Executed in 1944.

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

Grace Borgenicht Gallery, Inc., New York
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1973)
Grace Borgenicht Gallery, Inc., New York
Stephen Burakoff, Boston (acquired from the above in 1978)
Acquired from the above in 1987 by the present owner

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Milton Avery, 1982, no. 40, p. 59, illustrated