Attributed to Milton Avery, it does not have a COA. Medium: Oil canvas. Provenance: private collection. Amazing details, beautiful art painting, impressionism 1957. 31 x 41.5 in

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Biography: Milton Avery was an abstract painter whose work is a dialogue between line, shape and muted color. He is considered one of the most sophisticated 20th- century artists, and although never associated with a particular movement, influenced succeeding generations of artists including Color Field painters Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb.Born in Altmar, New York, he studied art in Hartford, Connecticut before settling in New York City in 1925. Although much of his painting is abstract, he never abandoned realistic images.1944 was a watershed year for Avery, largely because of a new gallery association with Paul Rosenberg in New York. Rosenberg had fled to New York from Europe with both a strong interest and inventory of avant-garde paintings, which he wanted to enhance. In addition to this collection, he agreed to buy twenty-five of Avery's paintings twice a year, which meant that Avery did not have to worry about money and was free to create.With this new freedom, he became much more prolific, and his style changed from a brushy, painterly application and graphic detailing to denser, more even areas of flattened color within delineated forms.As his career continued, he became more and more focused on concentrated color within simple, broadly contoured shapes. He perfected the technique of applying thin washes of paint to create veiled fields of color.In January, 1949, he had an heart attack that left him physically weak for the remainder of his life, and he died in 1965, having suffered a second heart attack three years earlier.

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Mint

41.5 x 31 in