Still Life with Flower Basket, Shells, Scissors

Details

FAIRFIELD PORTER (1907-1975)
Still Life with Flower Basket, Shells, Scissors
signed 'Fairfield Porter' (lower right)
oil on canvas
24 x 18 in. (61 x 45.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1945-50.

Provenance

The artist.
Ellen Auerbach, New York, gift from the above.
By descent to the present owner, 2004.

Literature

J. Ludman, R. Downes, W. Agee, J.T. Spike, Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels, New York, 2001, p. 113, no. L.57, illustrated.

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Lot Essay

The present work was initially owned by German-born photographer, Ellen Auerbach, who was close friends with Porter and his family. Auerbach was primarily known for her avant-garde portrait photography, examples of which can be found in numerous institutions, including the Getty Center, Los Angeles, California.

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