Georges L. Schreiber (1904-1977) Belgium, O/COil on canvas, four figures appear to be intently watching an act not in the scene. Signed and dated vertically lower left: Schreiber 41. A similar circus related study by Schrieber recently sold for over $6000 at Susanin's Auctioneers. GeorgeSchreiber was born in Brussels, Belgium. After studying in Berlin, London, Rome, Paris, and Florence, he moved to New York in 1928. Schreiber exhibited at the Carnegie Institute, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art - often winning prizes. Besides his career as a lithographer, Schreiber was also a painter, illustrator, watercolorist as well as ateacher at the New School for Social Research. Museum collections of Schreiber's work include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of the City of New York. Schreiber was a regular contributor to several national magazines and an author and illustrator of several books. The artist died in New York in 1977. Overall Size: 32 1/2 x 48 1/2 in. Sight Size: 23 1/2 x 39 1/2 in.