Milton Avery “The Figure” @ Karma, NYC

The Figure is the first full-scale survey devoted to Milton Avery’s figurative paintings. The works on view begin the 1920s, when he moved to New York, and continue through 1964, the year he completed his final canvases. Reminiscing on the home they shared for more than four decades, his wife, Sally Michel, recalled that “someone was always dropping in—a continual array of artists, relatives, models, and friends of friends,” all of whom talked about painting except Avery, “who sat quietly sketching first one and then another of the assembled group. . . . This cast,” she wrote, “provided Milton with much of his subject matter.”