Lot 2
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Fairfield Porter 1907 - 1975

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Fairfield Porter
  • View from 500 East Eleventh Street
  • signed F. Porter, l.r.; also inscribed Fairfield Porter / HEP / View from / 500 E. Eleventh St. / Collection Elizabeth / Porter on the reverse
  • oil on board
  • 15 3/4 by 12 in.
  • (40 by 30.5 cm)
  • Painted circa 1955.

Provenance

By descent in the family of the artist to the present owners

Literature

Joan Ludman, Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels, New York, 2001, no. L216, p. 149

Catalogue Note

In the 1950's, while living in Southampton, New York, Porter took a small studio, a cold water flat on run-down East 11th street, in Manhattan, where he stayed a few days a week, painted and wrote reviews of current art exhibitions for Art News.