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PAUL GEORGES AMERICAN PAINTER 19232002 PAUL GEORGES AMERICAN PAINTER 19232002 Self Portrait Painting 196263 48 x 52 12w Private Collection Bacchanal 196467 62 78 x 164w dipytch The Studio 1965 120 12 x 79 12 w CollectionThe Whitney Museum of American Art SelfPortrait Painting 31 x 20w Sagg Main Beach 197375 81 78 x 218 38w Fantasy About Freedom I 197376 92 34 x 105 78w The Mugging of the Muse 197174 80 x 103w Private Collection Paul Georgess PGThe Mugging of the Musewas at the center of the first libel lawsuit against a painting in history. PGlostthe suit in 1980 opening potential legal floodgates to the censorship of art journalism and freedom of speech. PG hired the expensive and brilliant premiere civil rights and First Amendment attorneys Victor Kovner and Harriette Dorsen who helped himwin on appeal protection of the First Amendment right to freedom of speech and expression. The legal ordeal that began in 1974 ended in 1982.