"Avery is first a great poet. His is the poetry of sheer loveliness, of sheer beauty… There have been several others in our generation who have celebrated the world around them, but none with that inevitability where the poetry penetrated every pore of the canvas to the very last touch of the brush."
—Mark Rothko
Provenance
Knoedler & Co., New York Acquired from the above by the present owner in May 1999
incised with the artist's signature and date "Milton Avery 1962" lower center; signed, titled and dated ""Big Bouquet" Milton Avery 1962" on the reverse oil on canvasboard 12 x 9 in. (30.5 x 22.9 cm) Painted in 1962.