Dikran G. Kelekian

Milton Avery

1943 · Oil on canvas · Modern and Contemporary Art

Avery, who is known for his bucolic landscapes and seascapes, painted only a handful of portraits that were not of his wife and daughter. This one depicts the famous antiquities dealer Dikran Kelekian (1868–1951), who, after 1900, also championed modern art. Seated in his Fifty-seventh Street gallery, he is surrounded by objects from his stock—a Coptic textile on the wall and a small Ancient Near Eastern sculpture of a bird.

Artist

Milton Avery

Date

1943

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

Gift of Nanette B. Kelekian, 1998