MILTON AVERY (1893-1965)

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MILTON AVERY (1893-1965)

Portrait of George Constant

signed Milton Avery, l.r.--oil on canvas
30 x 25in. (76.2 x 63.5cm.)
Provenance
Gift of the artist to George Constant
By descent in the family to the present owner

Lot Essay

Born in Greece in 1892, Geroge Constant studied with George Bellows and Charles Hawthorne and exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the San Francisco Museum of Art in the 30s and 40s.