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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Max Weber, Three Pears, 1929

Max Weber American, 1881-1961

Three Pears, 1929
Oil on canvas
21 x 18 inches
53.3 x 45.7 cm
Signed at lower right: Max Weber; dated at lower center: 1929
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Schoelkopf Gallery is the exclusive worldwide representative of the Max Weber Foundation. Max Weber's use of delicate tonal relationships and palpable light and space in the poetic 1929 still life...
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Schoelkopf Gallery is the exclusive worldwide representative of the Max Weber Foundation.


Max Weber's use of delicate tonal relationships and palpable light and space in the poetic 1929 still life Three Pears is reminiscent of Italian modernist Giorgio Morandi's celebrated sparse, muted still lifes that bridge the legacy of Italian art with twentieth-century abstraction. Historically, pears represent a symbol of temptation in the Western canon. In his Confessions (397-400 AD), for instance, St. Augustine recounts a story in which he stole pears from an orchard driven by a desire for earthly goods.
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Estate of the artist, 1961; to
Max Weber Foundation, 2021 until the present
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