Young Girl Nude
Artist: Milton Avery
Milton Avery (1893-1965), Young Girl Nude, drypoint, 1935, signed, dated and numbered in pencil, from the edition of 100. Reference: Lunn 7 (only state). In excellent condition, on a cream wove paper, the full sheet, 9 15/16 x 4 15/16, the sheet 14 7/8 x 13 1/8 inches, archival matting.
A fine fresh impression, printed in black ink,with substantial burr from the drypoint work.
This is a relatively early print by Avery, done in a period when he was creating drypoints and before the work on wood. Here he’s working in a Mannerist mode, with the bodily exaggerations reminiscent of artists in the late 16th-early 17th Century such as Callot or Bassange - but of course he’s thoroughly modernist as well.