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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 15, 2025 | Christie's | New York | Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale | 587 | $****** - ****** | A Short Walk |
paintings
157.5 x 121.9 cm (62 x 48 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated "Fairfield Porter "63" (lower left); signed and dated again "Fairfield Porter/1963" (lower right); signed again, titled and dated again "A Short Walk Fairfield Porter 1963" (on the stretcher)
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
Knoedler Gallery, New York
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York
Jane L. Richards, New York
Private collection, New York
Betty Cuningham, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Fairfield Porter , March-April 1964.
Albuquerque, The University of New Mexico Art Museum, Paintings from Photographs , September-November 1964.
Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum, January-March 1966.
Memphis, Tennessee, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, September-November 1966.
Pennsylvania, Swarthmore College, Fairfield Porter , 1967.
Lincoln, Nebraska, Mid-American Arts Alliance, A Sense of Place: The Artist and the American Landscape , November 1973-June 1974.
New York, Hecksher Museum, Artists of Suffolk County, Part III: Figurative Tradition , September-November 1970.
Southampton, New York, Parrish Art Museum, The Porter Family , May-July 1980, pp. 2 and 19, no. 8 (illustrated).
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; South Carolina, Greenville County Museum of Art; Cleveland Museum of Art; Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, and New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield Porter (1907-1975): Realist Painter in an Age of Abstraction , January 1983-July 1984, pp. 31 and 104, pl. 39 (illustrated).
Southampton, New York, Parrish Art Museum; Massachusetts, Amherst College, Mead Art Museum; Indiana, University of Notre Dame, The Snite Museum of Art; Buffalo, New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Waterville, Maine, Colby College Museum of Art, Fairfield Porter: An American Painter, June 1993-September 1994, pp. 17, 42 and 93, no. 24 (illustrated).
M. Benedikt, "Fairfield Porter: Minimum of Melodrama," ArtNews , March 1964, p. 36 (illustrated).
V.D. Coke, The Painter and the Photograph: From Delacroix to Warhol, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1972, pp. 218-19, fig. 450 (illustrated).
S.B. Griffin, "Distinctive Kinship: The Porter Family," The Hamptons, June 1980, pp. 4-5 (illustrated).
A. Wallach, "Fairfield Porter and His Family," Newsday , part II, 1 June 1980, p. 15 (illustrated).
J.B. Myers, "Fairfield Porter: Poet of the Commonplace" Portfolio , January-February 1983, p.60.
The Figurative Fifties: New York Figurative Expressionism, exh. cat., Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1988, pp. 130-32.
A. Hollander, Moving Pictures, New York, 1989, p. 391 (illustrated).
J.T. Spike, Fairfield Porter: An American Classic , New York, 1992, pp. 167, 231 and 293 (illustrated).
J. Ludman, Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors and Pastels , New York, 2001, pp. 31, 64 and 198-199, no. L435 (illustrated).
FAIRFIELD PORTER (1907-1975)
A Short Walk
signed and dated "Fairfield Porter "63" (lower left); signed and dated again "Fairfield Porter/1963" (lower right); signed again, titled and dated again "A Short Walk Fairfield Porter 1963" (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
62 x 48 in. (157.5 x 121.9 cm.)
Painted in 1963.
