Max Weber American, 1881-1961
Pewter Cup, 1929
Signed and dated at lower right: Max Weber 1929
Watercolor and pencil on paper
7½ x 9½ inches
19.1 x 24.1 cm
19.1 x 24.1 cm
Schoelkopf Gallery is the exclusive worldwide representative of the Max Weber Foundation. Painted in 1929, Pewter Cup exemplifies Max Weber’s lifelong still life practice. Weber would later use the composition...
Schoelkopf Gallery is the exclusive worldwide representative of the Max Weber Foundation.
Painted in 1929, Pewter Cup exemplifies Max Weber’s lifelong still life practice. Weber would later use the composition of the present watercolor in a series of lithographs titled Pewter Cup (c. 1928-30). The recurrent presence of pewter cups in Weber’s still life practice underscores his appreciation for objects of significance within his surroundings. As Weber explained, “We are in things. I need a cup or a garment; so much of my life’s need is in them that they are essential to my life. (Max Weber, Essays on Art, New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1916, p. 33)
Provenance
The artist; toEstate of the artist, 1961; to
Max Weber Foundation, 2021 until the present
Exhibitions
National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Max Weber: Prints and Color Variations, July 11-October 5, 1980, no. 46Courtesy of Demo Gallery
© Max Weber Foundation, courtesy Schoelkopf Gallery
