‘I like the way he puts on paint,’ Milton Avery said about Matisse in 1953, but that was as much as he was prepared to say. Contemporary critics tried to ‘pin Matisse’ on him as if art criticism were a branch of police work. He resisted, and remains a slippery customer.
Laura Gascoigne
As cool and refreshing as a selection of sorbets: RA’s Milton Avery show reviewed
No matter how abstracted his landscapes appear, Avery always puts you in the picture
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