GUIDO DI PIERO, CALLED FRA GIOVANNI DA FIESOLE, POSTUMOUSLY KNOWN AS FRA ANGELICO (NEAR VICCHIO C. 1395/1400-1455 ROME)

Lot 25
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Lot 25 | GUIDO DI PIERO, CALLED FRA GIOVANNI DA FIESOLE, POSTUMOUSLY KNOWN AS FRA ANGELICO (NEAR VICCHIO C. 1395/1400-1455 ROME)
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$ 1 000 000 – 1 500 000
GUIDO DI PIERO, CALLED FRA GIOVANNI DA FIESOLE, POSTUMOUSLY KNOWN AS FRA ANGELICO (NEAR VICCHIO C. 1395⁄1400-1455 ROME)

Saint Anthony Abbot

tempera and gold on panel, with an arched top

35 x 13 in. (89 x 33 cm.)





Provenance

Comte da Lisca collection, Verona, according to the Witt Library archive.

with Horace Ayerst Buttery, London.

Paul J. Getty (1892–1976), Santa Monica, CA, acquired in 1955.

with Agnews, London, by 1956.

Private collection, England.

with Charles Beddington Ltd., London, from whom acquired by the present owner in March 2001.



Literature

M. Boskovits, 'Appunti sull'Angelico,' Paragone, no. 313, 1976, pp. 43, 52-53, note 27, plate 13.

L.B. Kanter, 'A Rediscovered Panel by Fra Angelico,' Paragone, 29, 2000, pp. 8, 12, note 17.

CC. Wilson, 'Fra Angelico: New light on a lost work,' The Burlington Magazine, 137, no. 1112, Nov. 1995, pp. 737-739, fig. 26.

C.C. Wilson, Italian Paintings XIV-XVI centuries in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, London and Houston, 1996, pp. 135, 139, 144, note 46, fig. 10.5.

CB. Strehlke, Italian paintings, 1250-1450, in the John G. Johnson Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 2004, p. 59, under no. 9, p. 61, note 2.

L.B. Kanter, Fra Angelico, L.B. Kanter and P. Palladino eds., New York, 2005, pp. 104-105, no. 19, illustrated.



Exhibited

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fra Angelico, 26 October 2005-29 January 2006, no. 19.
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