Milton Avery, Blossoming, 1918 Oil on board, 27.9 x 38.1 cm Milton Avery Trust Photo: Adam Reich © 2022 Milton Avery Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York and DACS, London 2022
'He was America’s first great modern colourist with a bracing, racing-silk palette.'
“There have been others in our generation who have celebrated the world around them,” Rothko said, “but none with that inevitability where the poetry penetrated every pore of the canvas to the very last touch of the brush. For Avery was a great poet-inventor who invented sonorities never seen nor heard before.”
“There have been others in our generation who have celebrated the world around them,” Rothko said, “but none with that inevitability where the poetry penetrated every pore of the canvas to the very last touch of the brush. For Avery was a great poet-inventor who invented sonorities never seen nor heard before.”
July 12, 2022
