Lot 216
  • 216

Fairfield Porter

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Fairfield Porter
  • South Meadow
  • signed Fairfield Porter and dated 63 (lower right); signed Fairfield Porter, titled South Meadow, inscribed oil 18 x 20 and dated 1963 (on the stretcher)
  • oil on canvas
  • 18 1/8 by 20 1/8 inches
  • (46 by 51.1 cm)

Provenance

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

Exhibited

Southampton, New York, Parrish Art Museum; Waterville, Maine, Colby College Museum of Art, Fairfield Porter's Maine, 1977, no. 15
Portland, Maine, Barridoff Galleries, Fairfield Porter, 1979

Condition

Oil on canvas, canvas is not lined. Surface: in overall good condition; a few minor losses to the upper edge of the canvas and a minor spot of stable cracquelure in the upper right quadrant. Surface is slightly dusty and dirty. UNDER UV: No apparent inpainting.
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