Lot 82
  • 82

Max Weber

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Max Weber
  • The Mirror
  • signed Max Weber (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 28 by 36 inches
  • (71.1 by 91.4 cm)
  • Painted in 1940.

Provenance

Joseph R. Shapiro
Acquired from the above as a gift, 1961

Exhibited

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, n.d. (from an old label on the backing)
New York, Whitney Museum of Art, 1942-43 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art,  1943, no. 85
Art Institute of Chicago, Fifty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, 1943, no. 190, pl. 8, illustrated
Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Nineteenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, 1945 (from an old label on the backing)
Chicago, Maurice Spertus Museum of Judaica, Jewish Artists of the Twentieth Century, 1976, no. 62, illustrated 

Condition

Oil on canvas. Canvas is not lined. SURFACE: in generally good condition; very slight rubbing along edges (wooden backing board was not removed at time of cataloguing). UNDER UV: No apparent inpainting.
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