Lot 24AR
Fotis Kontoglou(Greek, 1895-1965)St John the Baptist 70 x 49 cm.
13 November 2019, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£12,000 - £18,000
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Fotis Kontoglou (Greek, 1895-1965)
St John the Baptist
signed in Greek and dated '1958' (lower right)
tempera on masonite board
70 x 49 cm.
signed in Greek and dated '1958' (lower right)
tempera on masonite board
70 x 49 cm.
Footnotes
Provenance
D. Kontoglou-Martinou collection, Athens.
Private collection, Athens.
Exhibited
On board T.S.S. Olympia, Exhibit of Byzantine Art, February 1958 (possibly, listed in the exhibition catalogue, no. 32).
Athens, National Gallery - Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Fotis Kontoglou, November 1978, no. 182 (listed and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, pp. 27, 48).
Tinos, Ioannis Orfanos Cultural Center, Fotis Kontoglou, Travel to the Island of Megalochari, August 15 - September 10, 2000, no. 48 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue).
Literature
F. Kontoglou, Expression of the Orthodox Iconography, Astir-Papadimitriou editions, Athens 1960, vol. 1, p. 408 (referred), vol. 2, plate 167 (illustrated).
Kontoglou, in Memoriam, Astir-Papadimitriou editions, Athens 1975, p. 324 (listed), p. 156 (illustrated).
N. Zias, Photis Kontoglou, Painter, Commercial Bank of Greece edition, Athens 1993, p. 138 (mentioned).
Fotis Kontoglou, The Greek, Epta Imeres - Kathimerini weekly magazine, 9.7.1995, p. 20 (illustrated).
Monk Theoklitos Dionysatos, Fotis Kontoglou in his Third Dimension, Holy Priory of Hosios Nikodemos edition, Goumenissa 2003, p. 205 (illustrated).