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Lot 3493
Paul Georges (American, 1923-2002), Standing Nude Model
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Oil on linen, signed and dated 1967 to lower right, retains Weatherspoon Art Gallery label to verso, presented in a gilt wood and composition frame.

Frame dimensions 47.5 x 34.75 in.

Deaccessioned from and being sold to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro

Gifted to Weatherspoon Art Museum in 1976 by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dorsky.

Paul Georges is known for his large-scale figurative allegories and his self-portraits. He learned from and became friends with many other great artists, including Fernand Léger, Hans Hofmann, Larry Rivers, Wolf Kahn, and Jane Freilicher. Georges' works are present in a number of significant museum collections, including the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon; Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago; Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton; and others. He was included in the Whitney Museum Annuals of 1961, 1963, 1967 and 1969.

Good estate condition, minor wear to frame.