Feb 16, 2012 - Sale 2268

Sale 2268 - Lot 79

Price Realized: $ 9,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
CHARLES ETHAN PORTER (1847 - 1923)
Untitled (Bag of Cherries).

Oil on thick cardstock, circa 1885. 230x300 mm; 9x12 inches. Signed in oil, lower right.

Provenance: private New York collection.

This charming oil is similar in size and painterly focus to other fruit still lifes Porter painted after his return from Paris in 1884. Another small composition of cherries is in the collection of Harmon and Harriet Kelley, San Antonio.