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FAIRFIELD PORTER (1907-1975)

Lot 587
15.05.2025 10:00UTC -04:00
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ID 1425822
Lot 587 | FAIRFIELD PORTER (1907-1975)
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$ 400 000 – 600 000
FAIRFIELD PORTER (1907-1975)
A Short Walk
signed and dated 'Fairfield Porter '63' (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.




Provenance

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



Literature

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).



Exhibited

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).
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