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Reclining Blonde

Artist Milton Clark Avery (American, 1885-1965)
Copy Right Holder Artists Rights Society (ARS)
Date1959
Dimensions28 5/16 × 50 1/4 × 1 3/8 in. (71.9 × 127.6 × 3.5 cm)
frame: 30 × 52 × 2 1/8 in. (76.2 × 132.1 × 5.4 cm)
Classification(s)
  • PAINTING
Credit LineBequest of Lawrence H. Bloedel, Class of 1923
Terms
  • reclining nude
  • female figure
  • abstract
Object number77.9.1
Inscribedl.l. in pencil: Milton Avery 1959
On View
Not on view
Provenancewith Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York; sold to Laurence H. Bloedel, Williamstown, MA, 1960, to WCMA, 1977.
Exhibitions
Exhibition History“One Man Show”; Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY. Feb. 3- Feb 30, 1960.

“The Lawrence H. Bloedel Collection of Modern American Art”; Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA. Aug. 3-29, 1965.

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