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Property from the Collection of Carl and Estelle Reiner

Milton Avery

Feeding

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22:56:03

May 14, 02:00 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Bid

500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Carl and Estelle Reiner

Milton Avery

1885 - 1965


Feeding

signed Milton Avery and dated 1944 (lower left); bears the artist’s signature, titled and dated 1944 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

48 by 36 in.

122 by 91.4 cm.

Executed in 1944.


This work is accompanied by a letter of opinion from the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, New York.

Grace Borgenicht Gallery, Inc., New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Detroit, Donald Morris Gallery, Milton Avery: Oil Paintings, The Middle Years, 1941-1949, 1971, no. 3, p. 3, illustrated

Austin, The University of Texas Art Museum; New Jersey, Summit Art Center and Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Milton Avery, Drawings and Paintings, 1976-77, pp. 13 and 54

New York, Katonah Gallery, Milton Avery: The Late Years, 1977

Sarasota, Florida, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Milton Avery: Retrospective Exhibition, 1977

Wichita State University, Edwin Ulrich Museum, Milton Avery: Paintings and Prints, 1977-78

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Milton Avery, 1982, no. 42, p. 62, illustrated