Oil on linen, signed lower left to recto, signed and dated 1967 with title to verso, retains Weatherspoon Art Gallery label to verso, unframed.

85 x 70 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. Morton D. May.

Joachim Probst's work representational work often expresses the artists own relationship with Western religion. He was using modern language of Gestural Abstraction and Expressionism to paint this subject matter in a time when religious themes were less popular in the fine art world of Warhol and Pollock.

Good estate condition, with minor surface accretions to lower left corner.