Original 1957 Milton Avery Provincetown Cape Cod Double Ink Drawing PROVENANCE

This listing is for “Inlets, 1957” by Milton Avery (1885-1965) pictured above. About this work:A wonderful double drawing by Milton Avery (1885-1965) with esteemed provenance.Drawings are a crucial part of Milton Avery’s oeuvre as they highlight his modernist perspective and lay the foundation for all of his most significant works. With modernism, the search for immediacy, for quickness, for vitality—the pursuit of effects intrinsic to the sketch became the ends rather than the means of artistic achievement. Avery’s work takes this view to a level that is neither as prevalent in any predecessor nor as refined in any successor. Avery’s genius can be seen in the way that he looked discerningly at the effects he was able to achieve in his rapid jottings and spontaneous scribbles. He meticulously works out ways to translate the notations and outlines captured in his works on paper into his oils on canvas.This particular double drawing features two views of the inlets near Provincetown Harb