Lot 59
  • 59

Max Weber

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
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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 in the catalogue
Washington, DC, 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 in the catalogue

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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