This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Dividing his time between New York City and Normandy, France, Paul Georges is a rebellious, contentious artist whose semi-mod realistic figurative work, large-scale floral studies, and history and mythological scenes have gone against the grain of the modernist mileau in which he painted. In New York City, his studio is a funky, timbered two-story space in Tribeca, similar to the two-story farmhouse from which he paints in France.
Born in 1923 to a Russian Jewish mother and Greek father in Portland, Oregon, he attended the Sunday Hebrew school and worked in his father's laundry business. He went to the University of Oregon in Eugene, and in 1947, was in Provincetown in the summer of 1947 studying with Hans Hofmann and meeting Jane Freilicher, Paul Resika, and Larry Rivers.
In 1949, he went to Paris where he studied with Fernand Leger whose circus performer paintings became a source of inspiration for Georges's later genre paintings. He met his wife Lisette, whom he married in England in 1950, and in 1952, the couple returned to New York, and his style swung between abstraction and explicit figurative painting.
During the 1960s, he was very much outside the mainstream of New York painting, although he was in several of the Whitney Biennials. From that time, his work has been a mix of a highly personal style that embraces surrealism, realism, and abstraction and a variety of themes including allegory and religion.
| |
| ** If you discover credit omissions or have additional information to add, please let us know at registrar@AskART.com. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|