Lot 43
  • 43

Fairfield Porter 1907 - 1975

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Fairfield Porter
  • Flowers on a Table
  • signed Fairfield Porter and dated '66, u.r.
  • oil on board
  • 18 by 20 in.
  • (45.7 by 50.8 cm)

Provenance

Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, circa 1966
Private Collection, Massachussetts (acquired from the above)
By descent in the family to the present owner

Exhibited

New York, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Fairfield Porter: Recent Paintings, February-March 1967
Amherst, Massachusetts, Amherst College, Mead Art Museum, Memories of Fairfield Porter, April-May 1981, no. 10 (as Goldenrod and Hackmatack)

Literature

Joan Ludman, "Checklist of the Paintings by Fairfield Porter," Fairfield Porter: An American Classic, New York, 1992, p. 296
Joan Ludman, Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors and Pastels, New York, 2001, no. L544, p. 221

Condition

Very good original condition, unlined; under UV: fine.
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