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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 21, 2014 | Sotheby's | New York | American Art | 26 | $****** - ****** | Woods and Rocks |
paintings
61.3 x 56.2 cm (24.13 x 22.13 in)
oil on canvas
signed Fairfield Porter and dated 64 (lower center)
Estate of the artist
Anne E.C. Porter (his wife)
By descent to the present owners
New York, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Fairfield Porter: Paintings, February-March 1965; Huntington, New York, Heckscher Museum of Art; Flushing, New York, Queens Museum; Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum, Fairfield Porter Retrospective Exhibition, December 1974-April 1975, no. 17, p. 5, illustrated p. 7; Boston, Massachusetts, Alpha Gallery, Paintings by Fairfield Porter, February-March 1977; Water Mill, New York, Parrish Art Museum; Waterville, Maine, Colby College Museum of Art, Fairfield Porter's Maine, July-September 1977, no. 15; Chicago, Illinois, The Arts Club of Chicago, Fairfield Porter: Paintings and Works on Paper, November-December 1984, no. 10; New York, Hirschl & Adler Modern, Fairfield Porter, 1907-1975, September 1985, no. 18; Chicago, Illinois, Compass Rose Modern and Contemporary Art, Fairfield Porter: Pictures and Words, March-August 1987; New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Fairfield Porter, 1907-1975, September-October 1992; Boston, Massachusetts, Alpha Gallery, Fairfield Porter: Paintings and Works on Paper, February-March 1994; Dayton, Ohio, University Art Galleries, Wright State University , Figuration-Abstraction: Fairfield Porter and Willem de Kooning, September-October 1995, no. 15; Boothbay Harbor, Gleason Fine Art, Fairfield Porter, August-September 1996; Birmingham, Michigan, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Fairfield Porter, March-April 1998
John T. Spike, Fairfield Porter: An American Classic, New York, 1992, p. 183, illustrated in color; Joan Ludman, "Checklist of Paintings by Fairfield Porter," Fairfield Porter: An American Classic, New York, 1992, p. 294; Joan Ludman, Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels, New York, 2001, no. L480, p. 208, illustrated
