On December 21, 1908, Max Weber, a twenty-seven-year-old Russian-born naturalized American, left Paris to return to New York where he would profoundly affect the course of American art as a painter, printmaker, sculptor, poet, essayist, and teacher. Henri “le Douanier” Rousseau, the visionary genius of French modernism, accompanied him to the Gare St. Lazare and called out to his departing friend, “N’oubliez pas la nature, Weber.” As Rousseau advised, Weber did not forget nature, and the natural world informed his work throughout his impressive sixty-year career. Best known today for his monumental cubist and futurist images of Manhattan from the 1910s, Weber redefined traditional subjects of figures, still life, and landscape to reflect his twentieth-century sensibility and touched on virtually every phase of modernism prior to his death in 1961.
Sotheby's 2015
Max Weber
TALMUDISTS
Estimate 8,000 — 12,000 USD
LOT SOLD. 18,750 USD
Max Weber
RECITAL
Estimate 10,000 — 15,000 USD
LOT SOLD. 15,000 USD
Sotheby's 2013
Max Weber 1881 - 1961
SOLOIST AT WANAMAKER'S
Estimate 15,000 — 20,000 USD
LOT SOLD. 112,500 USD
Max Weber
TWO PATRIARCHS
Estimate 8,000 — 12,000 USD
LOT SOLD. 8,750 USD (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
Christy's 2014
MAX WEBER (1881-1961)
Still Life
Price Realized $12,500
Estimate
$12,000 - $18,000
Christie's 2012
MAX WEBER (1881-1961)
Burlesque #1
Price Realized
$506,500 Estimate
$300,000 - $500,000
Swann 2015
MAX WEBER
Woman with a White Veil.
Estimate $1,500 - $2,500
Price Realized (with Buyer's Premium) $3,000
Gerald Peters Gallery
Max Weber, 'The Brown Pitcher,' 1953
Max Weber, Pitcher, Vase, and Fruit, 1911, watercolor on paper, 18 3/8 x 24 inches
Max Weber, Chinese Platter, ca. 1918, oil on canvas, 16 x 18 inches
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Max Weber Four Figures (Sisters) c 1912.