Live Auction 2342Fine American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
Fairfield Porter (1907-1975)
Lot 265 Property from the Estate of Stanley Posthorn

Fairfield Porter (1907-1975)

Maine Interior

Closed28 September 2010

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USD 20,000

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Fairfield Porter (1907-1975)
Maine Interior
signed 'Fairfield Porter' (lower right)
watercolor and pencil on paper
Executed circa 1955-60.

[With]Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Specialist note

According to Joan Ludman, the present work depicts the great room in the artist's home on Great Spruce Head Island in Penobscot Bay, Maine. The home was designed and built in 1912 by the artist's father, James Porter, who was an architect.