Milton Avery

American | 1885 - 1965

Milton Avery was an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1885. Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Anton Kern Gallery in New York. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The Chrysler Museum of Art have featured Milton Avery's work in the past.Milton Avery's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 15 USD to 6,069,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 6,069,500 USD for The Letter, sold at Sotheby's New York in 2022. In the past 12 months, their paintings have averaged 102,312 USD, while their decorative art have sold for an average of 17,780 USD.Milton Avery has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Christie's Daily in March 2025. The artist died in 1965.

Artist's alternative names: Milton Clark Avery

Featured for Sale

Standing Nude ,1941

By Milton Avery

Gallery Art

Feeding ,1944

By Milton Avery

Sotheby's New York

Lush Landscape, 1936

By Milton Avery

Shannon's

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Notable Lots

PORCH SITTERS ,1952

By Milton Avery

TWO FIGURES ON BEACH ,1950

By Milton Avery

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Sketching by the Sea ,1944

By Milton Avery

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Grey Nude ,1943

By Milton Avery

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Feeding ,1944

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Two Fishermen

By Milton Avery

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NUDE, 1953

By Milton Avery

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RECLINING NUDE, 1941

By Milton Avery

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Drowsey Woman ,1950

By Milton Avery

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Current Exhibitions

Fields of Color IV

Yares Art Gallery, New York

57th Street | New York | USA

Mar 01,2025 - Jun 28,2025

Past Exhibitions

Love Poems: Curated by Chris Martin (Singing In Unison, Part 11)

Anton Kern Gallery

New York | USA

Mar 12,2025 - Apr 26,2025

Revolutions: Art From The Hirshhorn Collection, 1860鈥�1960

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution

National Mall | Washington D.C. | District Of Columbia | USA

Mar 22,2024 - Apr 20,2025

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Articles

BmoreArt 03/04/2025

Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media

Christie's Daily 24/03/2025

A guide to key strands in early 20th-century American painting, from industrial landscapes and rural vistas to Paris and abstraction. Featuring works offered in Modern American Art on 17 April 2025.

Daily Art Magazine 08/01/2025

Imagine growing up with an artist mother or father. Watching them create art or making work together could spark your artistic passion.

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Coverage

鈥� ..Although Avery did occasionally exhibit some of this output, scholars and critics have tended to overlook this thread in his work, in favor of themes of leisure, nature, and the figure that anticipate... 鈥�
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Knoedler & Company

鈥� .. Milton Avery鈥檚 unique brand of modernism blends simplified figures and natural forms with abstract tonal planes... 鈥�
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DC Moore Gallery

鈥� ..Avery is known for alleviating excess pictorial elements and details in order to focus on his true subject: color... 鈥�
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Hackett | Mill

鈥� ..鈥�Avery spanned, and to an extent became the link between, two significant twentieth century national movements: American Impressionism and Abstract Expressionism... 鈥�
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Victoria Miro, London (St George Street)

鈥� ..Characterised by economy of touch and luminescence of colour, the works on view see the artist apply a lifetime of experience to cherished subjects and motifs... 鈥�
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Victoria Miro, Venice