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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
FAIRFIELD PORTER Landscape with a White Church.
Watercolor on cream wove paper, circa 1930-40. 385x575 mm; 15 1/4x22 1/2 inches.
Property from the estate of Anne E. C. Porter, with the estate ink stamp, verso.
The current lot straddles the stylistic elements of Porter's (1907-1975) early work and his later artistic output. His early paintings focus on accuracy in their representation of form, a main tenet of American Realism, while his later oeuvre highlights the bright colors and creation of form through gesture popular in Abstract Expressionism. The strictness of the architectural forms in this watercolor contrast with the Impressionistic interpretation of the trees in the background, displaying his preoccupation with the relationship between realism and abstraction, a theme he would explore throughout his career.
