Swann Galleries - 19th & 20th Century Prints - Sale 2429: Part III, November 3, 2016

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422 MILTON AVERY
Birds and Sea.
Color woodcut printed in brown and black on cream Japan paper, 1955. 248x609 mm;
9 3/4x24 inches, full margins.Artist’s proof, aside from the edition of 25. Signed, dated and
inscribed “artist’s proof ” in pencil, lower margin.A superb, richly-inked impression of this
large, scarce woodcut. Lunn 60. [4,000/6,000]
423 MILTON AVERY
Fish.
Woodcut printed in green on cream Japan paper, 2 impressions printed one over the other
on a single sheet, with hand colored additions in yellowish green gouache, 1952. 120x225
mm; 43/4x9 inches, full margins. Artist’s proof, likely a unique impression printed in this
manner, aside from the edition of 100. Signed, dated and inscribed “a/p” in pencil, lower
margin. A superb, richly-inked impression.
Avery printed from the same wood block twice on this sheet, inverting the image and
joining the two impressions along the horizontal axis, to create this impression. Lunn 41.
[3,000/5,000]
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