Live Auction 19998American Art
FAIRFIELD PORTER (1907-1975)
Lot 34

FAIRFIELD PORTER (1907-1975)

Wareham, Route 6

Closed18 November 2021

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USD 118,750

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FAIRFIELD PORTER (1907-1975)
Wareham, Route 6
signed and dated 'Fairfield Porter 1959' (lower right)—signed again and inscribed with title (on the overlap)
oil on canvas
17 1⁄2 x 31 in. (44.5 x 78.7 cm.)
Painted in 1959.

Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York.
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Estelle Gross, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel D. Gross, Merion, Pennsylvania.
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
CIGNA Museum and Art Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1983.
Sotheby's, New York, 1 December 2004, lot 248, sold by the above.
Betty Cunningham Gallery, New York, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2005.

Specialist note

One the way to their summer home in Maine, the Porter family would stop in Wareham, Massachusetts to visit the artist's wife Anne's parents.