Live Auction 5877Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours
Circle of Fra Giovanni da Fiesole, called Fra Angelico (Vicchio 1400-1455 Rome)
Lot 7

Circle of Fra Giovanni da Fiesole, called Fra Angelico (Vicchio 1400-1455 Rome)

A Dominican friar, with a subsidiary study of his head

Closed2 December 2014

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GBP 8,000

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Circle of Fra Giovanni da Fiesole, called Fra Angelico (Vicchio 1400-1455 Rome)
A Dominican friar, with a subsidiary study of his head
brown wash, traces of stylus, heightened with white (oxidized), on jade-green prepared paper
8 1/8 x 5 1/3 in. (20.7 x 13.6 cm.)

W. Mayor (L. 2799).
G. Lucas.

Specialist note

The figure in this drawing is close to that of Saint Dominic in Fra Angelico's Perugia altarpiece painted by the artist and his workshop around 1437-8, and today in Perugia, Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria (J.T. Spike, Fra Angelico, New York, 1996, no. 94, pp. 164-9, 243-4).