Advancing Sea — Fine Art

Advancing Sea - 1953 shows broad bands of blue and grey moving across the sheet. A thin strip of sky tone sits near the top. The flat colour areas push forward, one behind another. Milton Avery painted in planes of colour that simplify the water and the air.

This is a fine art print set in a frame with a back panel. The matte paper keeps the blue and grey tones soft and holds the colour shapes close to the surface.

It hangs on a kitchen wall near the sink, where the morning light lands on the blue bands. From the breakfast counter you read the stacked colour planes first, then the thin sky line.