Milton Avery (American, 1885-1965)
Rippled Rock and Rippled Sea, 1938
Watercolor on paper
22-1/4 x 30-1/2 inches (56.5 x 77.5 cm) (sheet)
Signed and inscribed lower right: Milton / Avery / 53
Signed, dated, and titled verso: Rippled Rocks + Rippled Sea / by / Milton Avery / 1938

PROVENANCE:
André Emmerich Gallery, New York.

"[Milton] Avery extended his color harmonies even further in the work he produced in 1938, when his family summered in Gaspé Peninsula, in Southwestern Canada. The landscape of the isolated region is bathed in an almost white light, quite different for the sky's usual yellowish cast in the urban regions of the northeastern United States. Avery set out to capture this light and its vibrant colour harmonies in the watercolours he executed that summer. The result was a unique luminosity of colour, distinct from any American art being produced at that time" (B. Haskell, Milton Avery, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1982, pp. 69).



Alternate Artist Spellings: "Avery, Milton", "Avery, Milton Clark", "Milton Avery"