LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

40.00 in. (101.60 cm.) (height) by 60.00 in. (152.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 55; signed, titled and dated 1955 on the reverse

Exhibited:

New York, Grace Borgenicht Gallery,. Milton Avery and His Friends, January - February 1978, no. 2, illustrated. Houston, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston; Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno de Mexico; Monterrey, Mexico, Museo de Monterrey; Caracas, El Museo de Bellas Artes; and Newport Beach, Newport Harbor Art Museum,. Milton Avery: Avery in Mexico and After , August 1981 - July 1982, p. 56, illustrated. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute; Fort Worth, Fort Worth Art Museum; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Denver, The Denver Art Museum; and Minneapolis, Walker Art Center,. Milton Avery , September 1982 - October 1983, p. 103, no. 81, illustrated in color. Springfield, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts,. Color and Romance: One Collector's Vision , September - November 1992 Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum and West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art,. Milton Avery: The Late Paintings , November 2001 - May 2002, p. 104, pl. 26, illustrated and p. 67.

Literature:

Hilton Kramer, Milton Avery: Homage to an American Master,. The New York Times Magazine , August 29, 1982, p. 40, illustrated in color pp. 28-29. Marla June Price,. The Paintings of Milton Avery (Ph.D. dissertation). University Michrofilms International (UMI), Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1982, pp. 185-86, no. 205, illustrated. Robert Hobbs,. Milton Avery , New York, 1990, p. 23, illustrated in color. Marla Price,. Milton Avery in the 1950s , Fort Worth, Texas, 1990, p. 7, fig. 4, illustrated

Provenance:

Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York. Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1978.