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MILTON AVERY Self Portrait.
Drypoint printed in dark brownish black on cream wove paper, 1937. 201x165 mm; 8x6 1/2 inches, full margins. Edition of 60. Signed and dated in pencil, lower margin. A very good, richly-inked impression of this scarce print, with strong contrasts.
This is Avery's (1885-1965) only printed self-portrait, though he painted some 50 or more self-portraits over the course of his career. He may have been contemplating a series of printed portraits, with this self-portrait and the drypoint portraits of his friends and fellow artists Mark Rothko (1936) and Vincent Spagna (1938). Lunn 13.
