Max Weber American, 1881-1961
Three Pears, 1929
Oil on canvas
21 x 18 inches
53.3 x 45.7 cm
53.3 x 45.7 cm
Signed at lower right: Max Weber; dated at lower center: 1929
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...
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.
Provenance
The artist; toEstate of the artist, 1961; to
Max Weber Foundation, 2021 until the present
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