Lot 32
  • 32

Fairfield Porter

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Fairfield Porter
  • Elizabeth
  • oil on canvas
  • 24 by 21 inches
  • (61 by 53.3 cm)
  • Painted circa 1964.

Provenance

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

Exhibited

New York, Hirschl & Adler Modern, Fairfield Porter, 1907-1975, September 5 - 28, 1985, no. 15

Literature

Joan Ludman, Fairfield Porter:  A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors and Pastels, New York, 2001, no. L451, p. 201

Condition

Canvas is not lined. SURFACE: in good condition overall; work is painted with thick impasto--there is some scattered cracquelure UNDER ULTRA VIOLET: girl is clean, except for a few specks of inpaint on her face and a very thin line of it on her right cheek; a few scattered spots and lines of inpainting for crq. fill in in background
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Catalogue Note

Elizabeth is the artist's youngest child.