Lot 38
  • 38

Fairfield Porter

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • Fairfield Porter
  • Fairview, North Carolina, No. 2
  • signed Fairfield Porter (lower right)
  • watercolor with traces of pencil on paper
  • 10 1/4 by 14 inches
  • (26 by 35.5 cm)
  • Executed in 1964.

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Anne E.C. Porter (his wife)
By descent to the present owners

Exhibited

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Recent Work by Fairfield Porter, April 11 - 29, 1972, no. 1 
Cold Spring Harbor, New York, Harbor Gallery, Fairfield Porter, August 19 - September 15, 1973, no. 22
Portland, Maine, Barridoff Galleries, Fairfield Porter, July 23 - September 3, 1979, no. 17
New York, Hirschl & Adler Modern; Boston, Nielsen Gallery, Fairfield Porter Watercolors, January 21 - June 24, 1995, no. 13
Farmington, Maine, Tom Veilleux Gallery, Fairfield Porter:  Oil Paintings and Watercolors, September 9 - October 7, 1995

Literature

Joan Ludman, Fairfield Porter:  A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors and Pastels, New York, 2001, no. L1059, p. 331

Condition

in good condition; sheet is hinged to backing with pieces of non-acidic paper tape along upper edge, verso
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Catalogue Note

The present work depicts the house of Edward Porter, Fairfield's brother.