Max Weber American, 1881-1961
Flowers, 1944
Signed and dated at lower right: MAX WEBER '44
Oil on canvas
30¼ x 25¼ inches
76.8 x 64.1 cm
76.8 x 64.1 cm
Max Weber's Flowers (1944) showcases the artist's enduring dedication to formal experimentation, giving rise to a distinctly American modernist aesthetic. Flowers remains at the threshold of reality and reinvention. While...
Max Weber's Flowers (1944) showcases the artist's enduring dedication to formal experimentation, giving rise to a distinctly American modernist aesthetic. Flowers remains at the threshold of reality and reinvention. While elements of the painting directly reference a still life of flowers in a vase, the ethereal, hovering shadows and large-scale shapes embrace a surreal quality reminiscent of the work of Surrealists Joan Miró and Yves Tanguy.
Provenance
The artist; toEstate of the artist, 1961; to
Max Weber Foundation, 2021 until the present
Exhibitions
Forum Gallery, New York, Max Weber: Discoveries, January 14–February 20, 1999Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, Max Weber, Music, Art and Dance: Paintings, Works on Paper, Sculpture and Prints, May 6–June 11, 2010
Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, American Modernists in the Age of Abstraction: Marguerite Zorach, William Zorach, Max Weber and Harold Weston
© Max Weber Foundation, courtesy Schoelkopf Gallery
