Milton Avery
Forms from Nature

Xavier Hufkens is delighted to present a new catalogue by Milton Avery, published in accordance with the exhibition Forms from Nature (2023).

"​Operating outside the fashions and movements that forged the history of American modern art, Avery achieved a prodigiously inventive collection of work that lies between figuration and abstraction, holds to an aesthetic of admirable constancy and conviction, and defies all classification. He took no part in the intellectual debates or the theories that held sway in artistic milieus, and he acknowledged no influence. “Why talk when you can paint?” he said. This resolutely independent posture helped him form a unique poetic vision of the world around him." — from the introduction essay by Nadia Chalbi
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