Milton Avery

signed Milton Avery and dated 1958 (lower left); bears inscription (on the reverse)

54 ⅛ by 66 ⅛ in.

137.5 by 168 cm.

Paul Larivière, Montreal (acquired by 1960 and until 1970)

Morton Bender, Washington, D. C. (acquired in the early 1980s)

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 2000)

Private Collection, Dallas (acquired from the above in 2013)

Private Collection, Virginia (acquired from the above in 2014)

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)

Phillips, New York, 15 November 2022, lot 29 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Provincetown, HCE Gallery, Milton Avery, 1958

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Collection du Docteur Paul Larivière, 1960, no. 4, n.p.

Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection; Macon, Mercer University; Bloomington, Indiana University; Fredericksburg, Mary Washington College; East Lansing, Michigan State University; Cedar Rapids, Coe College; San Antonio, Witte Memorial Museum; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Madison Art Center; Utica, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Milton Avery: Paintings, 1941-1963, 1965-66, no. 17, n.p.

Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution; The Brooklyn Museum; The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Milton Avery, 1969-70, no. 93, n.p., illustrated

New York, Mnuchin Gallery, The Joy of Color, 2018, pp. 32 and 85; p. 33, illustrated (in situ); pp. 34-35, illustrated (detail)

"Art: Seaside Painting," TIME Magazine, 15 September 1958, p. 72

Evan H. Turner, "Un collectionneur présente sa collection," Vie des Arts, no. 20, Fall 1960, p. 38

Hilton Kramer, Milton Avery: Paintings, 1930-1960, New York, 1962, pl. III, p. 25; p. 35, illustrated in color

Edwin Mullins, "Developments in Style—XV: Milton Avery," The London Magazine, vol. 4, no. 10, January 1965, p. 36

Elisabeth Stevens, "Don't Miss Virginia Artists '65," The Washington Post, no. 169, 23 May 1965, p. G7

Hilton Kramer, "Milton Avery: 'A Confidence of Vision,'" New York Times, vol. CXIX, no. 40888, 4 January 1970, p. D-25

Hilton Kramer, The Age of the Avant-Garde: An Art Chronicle of 1956-1972, New York, 1973, p. 318

Patricia Pate Havlice, World Painting Index, vol. I, Metuchen, 1977, p. 122

Bonnie Lee Grad, Milton Avery, Royal Oak, 1981, p. 18