Milton Avery

American (1893 - 1965)

Milton Avery was an American painter.
Based on ArtValue.ca records, Milton Avery's estimated art value is C$80,000 (*)

Milton Avery's work could be available for sale at public auction with prices in the range of C$50,000 - C$100,000, or even much higher.

From ArtValue.ca records, the highest price paid at auction for an oil painting work attributed to Milton Avery (1893-1965) was C$97,250 - paid for "Old Mountain, Young Trees" at Heffel in Vancouver on Wed, Nov 22, 2017.
ArtValue.ca has 20 auction art sale records for their oil painting results, with prices in the range of C$50,000 to C$100,000.

Heffel Auction House Biography and Notes

In 1965, the Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko said of Milton Avery’s simple and compelling art, “What was Avery’s repertoire? His living room, Central Park, his wife Sally, his daughter March, the beaches and mountains where they summered; cows, fish heads, the flight of birds; 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.” Rothko could have added that Avery also depicted himself, frequently in the nonchalant manner that we see here. A photograph by Arnold Newman taken just 10 years after this painting shows Avery sporting a similar beret in front of one of the painter’s signature landscapes. Myself in Blue Beret is typically unassuming, but we should not let its lack of fanfare deflect us from close looking.

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