Live Auction 2225Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
Christie’s roundel
Lot 22 Property from the G.U.C. Collection, Chicago, Illinois

Fairfield Porter (1907-1975)

Molly and Walter Bareiss

Closed2 December 2009

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Fairfield Porter (1907-1975)
Molly and Walter Bareiss
signed and dated 'Fairfield Porter 1959' (upper right)
oil on canvas
45¾ x 45¾ in. (116.2 x 116.2 cm.)

The artist.
[With]Tibor de Nagy, New York.
The Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection, Greenwich, Connecticut.
Estate of the above.
[With]Alexandre Fine Art, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2007.

Specialist note

Walter Bareiss, who amassed a vast collection of contemporary and African art, was at one time a trustee of New York's Museum of Modern Art and briefly an interim director of that museum.

We would like to thank Joan Ludman for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.