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Lot Description

Milton Avery

(American, 1885-1965)

Seated Nude (Alert Nude), c. 1938

graphite on paper

signed Milton Avery (lower right); inscribed with artist's name and titled (verso)

8 ½ x 11 inches.

Property from the Collection of Noel and Kathryn Dickinson Wadsworth, Atlanta, Georgia

This lot is accompanied by a letter from The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, New York.

Provenance:
Sally Avery
Pauline and Sam Klein, Woodstock, New York, acquired directly from the above
Conner Rosenkranz, New York, by 1993
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner, March 2003

Exhibited:
New York, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Milton Avery in Black and White: Drawings 1929-59, September 28 - December 31, 1990, p. 35, illus.

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