Lot 28
  • 28

Fairfield Porter 1907 - 1975

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Fairfield Porter
  • Sunrise
  • inscribed Fairfield Porter (AEP) by the artist's wife on the reverse
  • watercolor and pencil on paper
  • 30 by 22 inches
  • (76.2 by 55.9 cm)
  • Executed in 1974.

Provenance

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

Exhibited

New York, Hirschl & Adler Modern; Boston, Massachusetts, Nielsen Gallery, Fairfield Porter Watercolors, January-June 1995, no. 31, p. 35
Farmington, Maine, Tom Veilleux Gallery, Fairfield Porter: Oil Paintings and Watercolors, September-October 1995
Boothbay Harbor, Maine, Gleason Fine Art, Fairfield Porter, August-September 1996

Literature

Joan Ludman, Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints, Westbury, New York, 1981, pp. 124-5
Joan Ludman, Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels, New York, 2001, no. L1185, p. 352, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good condition. The paper is hinged at the upper edge and corners. There is a slight waviness to the paper that is inherent to the artist's materials and technique.
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