Live Auction 20979Modern American Art
FAIRFIELD PORTER (1907-1975)
Lot 147

FAIRFIELD PORTER (1907-1975)

Still Life with Giotto's Magdalene

Closed21 April 2023

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FAIRFIELD PORTER (1907-1975)
Still Life with Giotto's Magdalene
signed and dated 'Fairfield Porter 66' (lower right)—signed and dated again and inscribed with title (on the reverse)
oil on masonite
18 x 14 in. (45.7 x 35.6 cm.)
Painted in 1966.

The artist.
By descent to the present owners.

Specialist note

While staying on Spruce Head Island, Maine, Porter painted the present work from life based on his own arrangement of a binocular case, vase of flowers and a reproduction of a version of Giotto's Magdalene.