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    Sale 6639

    Fine European Furniture, Sculpture, Tapestries and Carpets

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    14 November 2002

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    • A PARCEL-GILT POLYCHROME CARVE
    Lot 120

    A PARCEL-GILT POLYCHROME CARVED WOOD FIGURE OF SAINT GEORGE

    CIRCLE OF GIL DE SILOE (D. CIRCA 1501), CIRCA 1490-1510

    Price realised

    GBP 29,875

    Estimate

    GBP 25,000 - GBP 35,000

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    A PARCEL-GILT POLYCHROME CARVED WOOD FIGURE OF SAINT GEORGE
    Circle of Gil de Siloe (d. circa 1501), circa 1490-1510
    Depicted with his right arm aloft, the dragon at his feet; on an integrally carved base; the reverse hollowed out.
    Minor worming; the gilding distressed and areas of the polychromy refreshed; formerly holding a spear, now lacking.
    61 in. (155 cm.) high

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
    A. Durán Sanpere and J. Ainuad de Lasarte, Ars Hispaniae, Vol. VIII, Escultura Gótica, Madrid, 1956, fig. 333.


    Lot Essay

    St. George is said to have been born in Cappodocia and died at the end of the 3rd century. Like St. Michael - to whom he is iconographically similar - St. George is depicted as a warrior saint, the embodiment of the triumph of the Christian church over evil, represented here in the form of the dragon.

    The graceful pose and the elaborately executed drapery of the figure offered here, place it among late gothic Spanish sculpture under Netherlandish influence at the end of the 15th century. In particular, one can compare the facial type, with its long, fleshy proportions and heavy-lidded eyes, to the work of Gil de Siloe, who is thought to have been born in the Netherlands but moved to Spain (for an illustration of de Siloe's figure of the Infante Alfonso begun in 1489 see Ars Hispaniae, loc. cit.).

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