Lot 39
  • 39

Fairfield Porter

Estimate
2,000 - 4,000 USD
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Description

  • Fairfield Porter
  • Southampton Landscape
  • signed Fairfield Porter and dated 72 (lower right)
  • pastel on paper
  • 20 by 16 inches
  • (51 by 40.7 cm)

Provenance

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

Exhibited

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Fairfield Porter, 1907-1975, September 25 - October 31, 1992

Literature

Joan Ludman, Fairfield Porter:  A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors and Pastels, New York, 2001, no. L1285, p. 365, illustrated

Condition

in good condition,generally; sheet surface has faded slightly, although pigment colors are bright; pinholes at upper corners; sheet is hinged to backing with pieces of white linen tape along upper edge, verso
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