Lot 23
  • 23

Fairfield Porter

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • Fairfield Porter
  • The Harbor, Great Spruce Head
  • signed Fairfield Porter (lower right)
  • watercolor with traces of pencil on paper
  • 17 by 22 inches
  • (43.2 by 55.9 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
New York, Hirschl & Adler Modern; Boston, Nielsen Gallery, Fairfield Porter Watercolors, January 21 - June 24, 1995

Literature

Joan Ludman et al., Fairfield Porter:  A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors and Pastels, New York, 2001, cat. no. L1049, p. 329, not illustrated

Condition

In fairly good condition overall; surface of sheet has faded slightly; scattered light stains throughout; rippling; a few hard, vertical creases (upper center and along lower edge); sheet was not examined out of frame as edges show clearly and are intact
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