Sunburned Couple

Arts of the Americas

1943

Milton Avery (American, 1885–1965)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Milton Avery
Title: Sunburned Couple
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1943
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed recto, left-middle, above seat, in blue paint: "Milton / Avery / 1943". Signed, dated, and inscribed verso, top-right, on canvas, in black paint: ""Sunburned Couple" / by Milton Avery / 1943 / 42x36".
Dimensions: 106.7 × 91.5 cm (42 × 36 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Daniel N. Epstein and Sonja L. Reed
Reference Number: 2024.1005

Edward Lucie-Smith, Milton Avery: The Nude and Other Subjects, A Retrospective View: 1929–1963, exh. cat. (Scottsdale, AZ: Riva Yares Gallery, 2001), 22, 27, 64, no cat. no. (ill.).
Riva Yares Gallery, Milton Avery: All Creatures Great and Small, exh. cat. (Scottsdale, AZ: Riva Yares Gallery, 2003), 22, 48, no cat. no. (ill.).
Riva Yares Gallery, Milton Avery: Connections Over Time, exh. cat. (Scottsdale, AZ: Riva Yares Gallery, 2005), 45, 64, no cat. no. (ill.).

Santa Fe, NM, Riva Yares Gallery, Milton Avery: The Nude and Other Subjects, A Retrospective View: 1929–1963, July 6–Aug. 11, 2001, no cat. no.; Scottsdale, AZ, Riva Yares Gallery, Feb. 2–Mar. 11, 2002.
Santa Fe, NM, Riva Yares Gallery, Milton Avery: All Creatures Great and Small, July 4–Aug. 4, 2003, no cat. no.; Scottsdale, AZ, Riva Yares Gallery, Mar. 6–Apr. 5, 2004.
Santa Fe, NM, Riva Yares Gallery, Milton Avery: Connections Over Time, July 8–Aug. 15, 2005, no cat. no.; Miami, Art Basel Miami, Dec. 1–4, 2005; Scottsdale, AZ, Riva Yares Gallery, Feb. 19–Apr. 3, 2005.

The artist, New York; by descent to his estate; with Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe and Scottsdale, AZ, by July 2001 [Riva Yares Gallery 2001 and 2005]; sold to KN Gallery, Chicago, Oct. 7, 2006 [gallery invoice; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Daniel N. Epstein and Sonja L. Reed (1939–2024; born Sonja Ragnhild Lorentzen; also Sonja Epstein), Chicago, Oct. 15, 2007 [gallery invoice; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2024.

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