$18,000
Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000
American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists
Auction: June 8, 2014 3:00:00 PM EDT
Signed and dated 'MAX WEBER 1910' in pencil bottom left; also signed and dated 'Max Weber 1911' bottom center, watercolor and gouache on paperboard
25 5/8 x 18 7/8 in. (65.1 x 45.6cm)
Provenance: Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York, New York.
Private Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
'American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture,' Sotheby's, New York. March 13, 2002, lot 66.
Private Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
EXHIBITED:
"Paintings from Minneapolis Private Collections." Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July - August, 1960, no. 120.
NOTE:
Max Weber was an early exponent of American Cubism in the first half of the twentieth century. During his artistically formative years between 1905 and 1909, Weber became influenced by modernists including Picasso, Matisse and Henri Rousseau. He would have painted Draped Figure shortly after his return to New York from Paris. The watercolor and gouache shows a mixture of modern styles: the geometric forms encircling the figure and flattening of the picture plane denote a cubist influence, while frenetic strokes and distinct linearity reference German Expressionism. Transcending any single stylistic category, Weber's work has also been described as containing elements of futurism, fauvism and dynamism.