Lot 37
  • 37

Fairfield Porter

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • Fairfield Porter
  • The Pear Tree--Autumn
  • signed Fairfield Porter and dated 1972 (lower right)
  • watercolor on paper
  • 16 by 12 inches
  • (40.5 by 30.5 cm)

Provenance

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

Exhibited

The Arts Club of Chicago, Fairfield Porter:  Paintings and Works on Paper, November 12 - December 31, 1984, no. 38
New York, Hirschl & Adler Modern, Fairfield Porter, 1907-1975, September 5 - 28, 1985, no. 60
Boston, Alpha Gallery, Fairfield Porter:  Paintings and Works on Paper, February 5 - March 9, 1994
Birmingham, Michigan, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Fairfield Porter, March 6 - April 15, 1998
New York, Hirschl & Adler Modern; Boston, Nielsen Gallery, Fairfield Porter Watercolors, January 21 - June 24, 1995, no. 23

Literature

Joan Ludman, Fairfield Porter:  A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors and Pastels, New York, 2001, no. L1119, p. 341, illustrated

Condition

in good condition; work was not removed from frame for examination, as edges show clearly and are intact
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