SOLD The Bull's Head, Bridgehampton, 1953
by Fairfield Porter (1907–1975)24¼ x 32⅛ inches
Signed and dated lower right: Fairfield Porter 53; signed indistinctly lower right: Porter
SOLD
Provenance
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, New York
Stable Gallery, New York, New York
Rosalind Constable, New York, New York
Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, New York, May 24, 1990, lot 244
Benjamin V. Lambert, the Hamptons, New York, acquired from above
Estate of Benjamin V. Lambert, the Hamptons, New York, 2021
Sale, Christie’s, New York, New York, May 17, 2022, lot 59, from above
Literature
Joan Ludman, Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2001), 132, no. L146.
Note: Rosalind Constable (1907–1995) was a writer, art critic, and collector. In addition to her twenty-year career at Time magazine, Constable was a trustee of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation and a guest curator at the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe.
Artist Biography
By Nina Sangimino
The deepest order is not within the ability of the artist to create, instead it is something that he is able to find, whether within or outside himself, and only if he is open enough, unprejudiced enough and attentive enough.[1]
—Fairfield Porter
I. Biography
II. Chronology
III. Collections
IV. Exhibitions
V. Memberships
VI. Notes
VII. Suggested Resources
I. Biography
Fairfield Porter has been called both “the most important realist painter from 1949 until his death in 1975”[2] and “one of the most lucid and intelligent art critics and writers of the post 1945 period.”[3] He continued to paint representationally throughout the height of Abstract Expressionism, yet
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