Lot 30
  • 30

Fairfield Porter

Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description

  • Fairfield Porter
  • City Dining Room Still Life
  • signed Fairfield Porter (lower right)
  • oil on canvas, unframed
  • 28 by 24 inches
  • (71 by 61 cm)
  • Painted circa 1945.

Provenance

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

Literature

Joan Ludman, Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings, Watercolors and Pastels, New York, 2001, no. L46, p. 110

Condition

Canvas is not lined. SURFACE: in good condition; canvas is rough/burlap-like; a couple of small losses at lower edge UNDER UV: no apparent inpainting
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