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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Max Weber, Still Life with Purple Leaves, 1912

Max Weber American, 1881-1961

Still Life with Purple Leaves, 1912
Oil on canvas
13¾ x 19¾ inches
34.9 x 50.2 cm
Signed and dated at lower right: MAX WEBER 1912
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Schoelkopf Gallery is the exclusive worldwide representative of the Max Weber Foundation. Painted in 1912, Still Life with Purple Leaves exemplifies Max Weber’s lifelong still life practice. From 1905 to...
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Schoelkopf Gallery is the exclusive worldwide representative of the Max Weber Foundation.



Painted in 1912, Still Life with Purple Leaves exemplifies Max Weber’s lifelong still life practice. From 1905 to 1908, Weber lived and worked in Paris, where leading figures of the avant-garde were developing radical new modes of visual expression. Weber was particularly deeply influenced by Paul Cézanne, the French Post-Impressionist master revered for his still life practice. Weber returned to the still life genre throughout his career and cultivated a discerning eye for objects of significance in his environment: “Culture will come only when every man will know how to address himself to the inanimate simple things of life,” Weber claimed. “A pot, a cup, a piece of calico, a chair, a mantle, a frame, the binding of a book, the trimming of a dress…these we live with. Culture will come when people touch things with love and see them with a penetrating eye” (Max Weber, Essays on Art, New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1916, 32).

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Estate of the artist, 1961; to
Max Weber Foundation, 2021 until the present
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