1893 - 1965
American
Reclining Nude on Blanket
black ball-point pen and oil crayon on paper
signed and dated 1958 and on verso titled and dated on the gallery label
16 3/4 x 13 3/4 in, 42.5 x 34.9 cm
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000 CAD
Sold for: $3,750
Preview at: Heffel Toronto – 13 Hazelton Ave
PROVENANCE
Donald Morris Gallery, Detroit
Collection of James and Elizabeth Eayrs, Toronto
LITERATURE
Milton Avery, The Fort Wayne Art Museum, 1962, not illustrated
Dore Ashton, One Hundred Contemporary American Drawings, University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1965
Una E. Johnson and Mark Rothko, Milton Avery: Prints and Drawings 1930 - 1964, 1966, catalogue #18, not illustrated
EXHIBITED
The Fort Wayne Art Museum, Milton Avery, November 1 - 30, 1962, catalogue #39
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, One Hundred Contemporary American Drawings, February 24 - March 28, 1965, catalogue #4
We thank the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation for physically examining and confirming their positive opinion of this work. A document from the foundation will accompany this work.
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