Sliman Mansour Palestinian , b. 1947
St. George, 1972
Pencil on paper
65 x 85 x 3 cm
25 5/8 x 33 1/2 x 1 1/8 in
25 5/8 x 33 1/2 x 1 1/8 in
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Mansour was born into a Christian family (his grandfather was a Greek Orthodox priest) and educated at a Lutheran school near Bethlehem. Religious icons were some of the first artworks he was surrounded with as a child, and he has often adapted Christian iconographies in his work.