The phrase "pair of paintings" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are talking about two paintings that are related in some way, such as two paintings that were done by the same artist, or two paintings that are part of a series. For example, you might say, "This gallery has a beautiful pair of paintings by a local artist."
This man had brought a pair of paintings done by his ancestor.
A specific pair of paintings by van Gogh — one in Cleveland, the other in Washington — inspired the exhibition.
He put them in a chamber, one at a time, and showed each a pair of paintings by different artists.
A pair of paintings by Dennis Pinette take a more general view of the loss of natural landscape.
But in a stunning pair of paintings, "Man Writing a Letter" and "Woman Reading a Letter," Metsu approaches Vermeer's kind of luxury: the luxury of introspection.
As for the wall art, it's a pair of paintings of nipple-shaped pink things that look like -- no, are -- a couple of baby pacifiers.
With just 38 pictures, "Rembrandt-Caravaggio" feeds viewers exquisite morsels and invites them to linger and look.The first pairing of paintings, showing Abraham sacrificing his son, sets the stage dramatically.
In the study, which was discussed in a story on the Miller-McCune Web site, Ms. Hawley Dolan, a Ph.D. candidate in psychology and Ms. Winner, a psychology professor, asked 72 undergraduates - studio art and psychology majors - to look at slide shows of similar-looking pairs of paintings.
On 300 identical rectangular canvases, Mr. Gallizia commissioned matched pairs of paintings from leading street artists worldwide, to create a panorama of graffiti's historical and geographical development from 1970s New York subway roots to modern urban landscapes as far-flung as Australia and Brazil.
The highest price of the week - $11 million - was paid at Sotheby's last Friday for a pair of Canaletto paintings of Venice from about 1730.
But ideals of progress take a dive in the bleak postindustrial landscapes portrayed in a pair of Ed Ruscha paintings and the figurines of nude sunbathers by Robert Graham.
