Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The first:
Winter Landscape, 1963, pencil signed and numbered 58/118 at lower right; the second:
Landscape, 1965, pencil signed and numbered 17/76 at lower right; the third:
Standing Child, 1963, pencil signed and numbered 59/112 at lower right; each unframed.
Sheet Size 23 x 28 1/2 in. (the first), 10 x 12 3/4 in. (the second), 29 x 23 1/4 in. (the third)
Deaccessioned from and being sold to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro Paul Georges is known for his large-scale figurative allegories and his self-portraits. He learned from and became friends with many of his contemporaries, 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.