Large Philip Castle Italian Medieval Landscape, oil on canvas, 34.125 x 40 inches, 38.5 x 44.5 x 2 inches overall framed, signed Castle lower right, signed Philip Castle and dated 75 verso, gilt frame. 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 naieve 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 artists 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.

Very sound save for some edge wear especially as visible at upper right, no craquelure, scattered light frame edge wear.