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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.