Excerpt from Milton Avery<br><br>Poetry and mystery abound in his paintings and color achieves a life of its own, sometimes lovely and gentle, sometimes startlingly tart, yet always subtle and applied with the authority of well - rounded experience. For Avery is a veteran painter whose work has grown constantly, his most recent work being the most profound and vital of his entire career. It has the effortless ease which only a master achieves, and the intuitive compositional strength bred of full under standing. The distortion oi his shapes is bold but accurate, and his simplifications always retain sufficient identity with his subject to be entirely readable.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.