Milton Avery

Clamdiggers

Auction Closed

November 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Collection of Phyllis & Jerome Lyle Rappaport

Milton Avery

1885 - 1965

Clamdiggers

signed Milton Avery and dated 1945 (lower right); signed Milton Avery, titled and dated 1945 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

28 by 36 in.

71.1 by 91.4 cm.

Executed in 1945.

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

Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York (by 1982)

Acquired from the above in 1984 by the present owner

Kay Larson, "America Modern," The New Yorker, vol. 15, issue 9, March 1982, p. 65

Lewis Kachur, "America's Argenteuil: Artists at Gloucester," Arts Magazine, vol. 56, issue 7, March 1982, p. 139, illustrated

New York, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, The Gloucester Years, 1982, pp. 6, 8 and 22, illustrated