Milton Avery: The Late Portraits
Victoria Miro presents an exhibition of portraits drawn from the last four years of Milton Avery鈥檚 life. 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.
Milton Avery (1885鈥�1965) made portraits throughout his career yet, bar a handful of exceptions, did not accept commissions. Instead, he drew and painted what was most dear to him and closest to hand 鈥� family and friends, at home or on vacation. As Mark Rothko commented in his memorial address: 鈥榃hat was Avery鈥檚 repertoire? His living room, Central Park, his wife Sally, his daughter March鈥� his friends and whatever world strayed through his studio; a domestic, unheroic cast. But from these there have been fashioned great canvases, that far from the casual and transitory implications of the subjects, have always a gripping lyricism, and often achieve the permanence and monumentality of Egypt.鈥�
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Victoria Miro presents an exhibition of portraits drawn from the last four years of Milton Avery鈥檚 life. 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.
Milton Avery (1885鈥�1965) made portraits throughout his career yet, bar a handful of exceptions, did not accept commissions. Instead, he drew and painted what was most dear to him and closest to hand 鈥� family and friends, at home or on vacation. As Mark Rothko commented in his memorial address: 鈥榃hat was Avery鈥檚 repertoire? His living room, Central Park, his wife Sally, his daughter March鈥� his friends and whatever world strayed through his studio; a domestic, unheroic cast. But from these there have been fashioned great canvases, that far from the casual and transitory implications of the subjects, have always a gripping lyricism, and often achieve the permanence and monumentality of Egypt.鈥�
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Victoria Miro presents an exhibition of portraits drawn from the last four years of Milton Avery鈥檚 life. 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.
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