MILTON CLARK AVERY (1893-1965)

Details

MILTON CLARK AVERY (1893-1965)

Girl in a Brown Hat

signed Milton Avery l.r. --gouache and pencil on paper
31 1/8 x 22 5/8in. (78.7 x 57.6cm.)

Provenance

William Zierler, Inc., New York

Exhibited

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Edmonton Art Gallery, The Collective Unconscious, n.d.
New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Milton Avery, Sept.-Dec. 1982, p. 224. This exhibition later travelled to Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Jan.-Mar. 1983; Fort Worth, Fort Worth Art Museum, Mar.-May 1983; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, May-July 1983; Denver, The Denver Art Musuem, July-Sept. 1983; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Sept.-Oct. 1983.

Lot Essay

Executed in 1945, this gouache relates to an oil of the same subject, which was illustrated as no. 15 in Milton Avery, the catalogue for the travelling exhibition from 1969-1970, organized by the National Collection of Fine Arts.