£5,000
Contemporary & Post-War Art | Prints & Multiples | 635
Auction: Contemporary & Post-War Art | Prints & Multiples
Signed lower right, oil on canvas
Note: Marsyas was a Phrygian Satyr who invented the music of the flute. He found the very first flute which had been crafted but cast away by the goddess Athena who had been displeased by the bloating of the cheeks. Marsyas later challenged the god Apollo to a musical contest but lost when the god demanded they play their instruments upside-down in the second round--a feat ill-suited to the flute. As punishment for his hubris, Apollo had Marsyas tied to a tree and flayed alive. The gods then transformed him into a stream.