Autumn Sea

Inscriptions

Signed and dated, in paint, lower left: Milton Avery / 1948; inscribed, in ballpoint pen, on reverse: "Autumn Sea" / by / Milton Avery / 22 x 30 / w.c. / 1948; inscribed, on reverse, in crayon: 3675F

Exhibition History

Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005.

Milton Avery, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., December 12, 1969-January 25, 1970; The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, February 17-March 29, 1970; The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio, April 24-May 31, 1970.

Publication History

Christie's New York, American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, September 22, 1994, lot 130 (bought in).

Milton Avery, Washington: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, no. 43, illus., 1969.

Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, ill. p. 225.

Provenance

Grace Borgenicht Gallery, Inc., New York, New York; sold to Richard Henry Mandel (1905-1976), Bedford Hills, New York; given to his son, Stephen Frank Mandel (1931-2009), Darien, Connecticut, about 1976; given to present collection, 1994.

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