Max Weber (1881-1961) America
Lot 38
Chinese Lion
1932
Lithograph
19.5 x 21.6cm 7.6 x 8.5inch (plate) 51 x 46cm (fr)
Condition Excellent
Signed in pencil lower right, inscribed on plate initials lower left
Estimate: $1200 - $1500
Max Weber was a Russian-born Jewish-American painter best known for introducing Cubism to the United States. Weber’s abstracted depictions of interiors, landscapes, and portraits, were influenced by the works of Henri Rousseau, Henri Matisse, and Paul Cézanne. Born 1881 in Bialystok, Russian Empire (present-day Poland), he and his family moved to Brooklyn, NY in 1891. The artist went on to study under Arthur Wesley Dow at the Pratt Institute before travelling to Paris in 1905. It was while he was in Europe that he met Rousseau, Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.. Today, Weber’s works are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., , and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, among others.