The first of a standing female model, sanguine conte crayon on Rives paper (30 x 22 in.); the second of three female models, watercolor on Rives paper (20 x 22 in.); each signed and dated 1973 to lower right, unframed.

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

Gifted to the Weatherspoon Art Museum 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.

Watercolor work with cockling to lower third of sheet. some scattered smudging