Lot 33
  • 33

Fairfield Porter 1907 - 1975

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Fairfield Porter
  • Peak Island and Lobster Boat
  • signed Fairfield Porter and dated 68 upper right; also signed Fairfield Porter, titled Peak Island and Lobster Boat and dated 1968 on the reverse
  • oil on board
  • 14 by 15 inches
  • (35.6 by 38.1 cm)

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York
Alpha Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1980

Exhibited

Watermill, New York, Parrish Art Museum; Waterville, Maine, Colby College Museum of Art, Fairfield Porter's Maine, July-September 1977, no. 13
Portland, Maine, Barridoff Galleries, Fairfield Porter, July-September 1979, no. 10
Portland, Maine, Barridoff Galleries, Ten Small Twentieth-Century American Paintings, circa 1980, no. 6, illustrated

Literature

Joan Ludman, "Checklist of Paintings by Fairfield Porter," Fairfield Porter: An American Classic, New York, 1992, p. 268
Joan Ludman, Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels, New York, 2001, no. L642, p. 242, illustrated

Condition

This painting is in good condition. Under UV: there are a few dots and dashes of inpainting in the lower register in the water. This painting would benefit from a light cleaning.
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