Live Auction 18953Italian Drawings From The Robert Landolt Collection
Maso Finiguerra (Florence 1426-1464)
Lot 2

Maso Finiguerra (Florence 1426-1464)

Head of a man with curly hair looking right

Closed8 December 2020

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GBP 4,750

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Maso Finiguerra (Florence 1426-1464)
Head of a man with curly hair looking right
traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink, light brown wash, shaped along the right edge, made up at lower edge
2 ¾ x 2 ¼ in. (7.1 x 5.3 cm)

Pelli-Fabbroni Collection, Florence.
De Sanctis Collection; W. Kundig, Geneva, 22 November 1947, lot 206, pl. XXII (SF 2100, as Antonio Pollaiuolo).
with Colnaghi, London (Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, 1949, no. 15), where acquired by Robert Landolt.

Specialist note


Inspired by a Classical source like a Roman bust, this work is entirely representative of Maso and his practice. It relates to similar head studies in the Louvre and a private collection (see Melli, op. cit., nos. 107, 157, ill.).