Lot 22
  • 22

Fairfield Porter

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • Fairfield Porter
  • Study for 'Still Life with Checkered Tablecloth' and Still Life of Potted Plants on a Table: Two Oil Sketches
  • each signed Fairfield Porter (AEP) by the hand of the artist's wife, verso
  • oil on paper, unframed
  • Each: 20 by 16 inches
  • (51 by 40.8 cm)

Provenance

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

Literature

Joan Ludman et al., Fairfield Porter:  A Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings, Watercolors and Pastels, New York, 2001, cat. no. L599, pp. 75, 225 illustrated (the finished painting, Still Life with Checkered Tablecloth)

Condition

In good condition, no apparent inpainting
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