LARGE PHILIP CASTLE ITALIAN SYMBOLIST MEDIEVAL OIL: Oil/Canvas, 34.25'' x 40'', signed Philip Castle lower right, dated 75 verso, gilt framed, 38.5'' x 44.5'' x 2''. A pre-Renaissance modern pop art realist avant-garde depiction of the birth of an heir to the throne with a Queen and Bishops in a fortress village or city town square in a neo-naive Symbolist or Surrealist inspired theatrical composition dotted with interesting and humorous vignettes of people and animal subject matter. Venice and Italy views such as the present work are perhaps the English artist's best known painting series. However, he is also one of the top post War British illustrators with design credits including the Stanley Kubrick A Clockwork Orange poster and projects involving Full Metal Jacket, Ken Russell The Boyfriend, Tim Burton Mars Attacks and Jack Nicholson Goin South as well as David Bowie Aladdin Sane, the Rolling Stones Its only Rock n Roll and Paul McCartney Wings. Ref blueprint and design curial. Est. $1000/2000**