Lot 217
  • 217

Fairfield Porter

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description

  • Fairfield Porter
  • Wood Road
  • signed Fairfield Porter and dated 69 (upper right); titled Wood Road, inscribed oil 22 x 18, and dated '69 (on the reverse)
  • oil on Masonite
  • 22 by 17 7/8 inches
  • (55.9 by 45.4 cm)

Provenance

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

Exhibited

Huntington, New York, Heckscher Museum; Flushing, New York, Queens Museum; Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum, Fairfield Porter Retrospective Exhibition, 1974 - 1975, no. 27, illustrated in the catalogue p. 8
Southampton, New York, Parrish Art Museum; Waterville, Maine, Colby College Museum of Art, Fairfield Porter's Maine, 1977, no. 4
Chicago, Illinois, The Arts Club of Chicago, Fairfield Porter: Paintings and Works on Paper, 1984, no. 22
New York, Hirschl & Adler Modern, Fairfield Porter, 1907-1975, 1985, no. 32
Chicago, Illinois, Compass Rose Modern and Contemporary Art, Fairfield Porter, 1987
New York, Hirschl & Adler Modern, Fairfield Porter, 1907-1975, 1992
Farmington, Maine, Tom Veilleux Gallery, Fairfield Porter: Oil Paintings and Watercolors, 1995
Birmingham, Michigan, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Fairfield Porter, 1998

Literature

Joan Ludman, “Checklist of Paintings by Fairfield Porter,” Fairfield Porter: An American Classic, New York, 1992, p. 300
Joan Ludman, Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors and Pastels, New York, 2001, no. L709, p. 257, illustrated

Condition

Oil on Masonite. Surface: In overall good condition; paint losses to upper left corner and along edges, possibly from frame abrasion. Surface is slightly dirty and dusty. UNDER UV: No apparent inpainting.
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