MAX WEBER BECOMING MODERN
MAX WEBER BECOMING MODERN
November 12 - December 14, 2018 Gerald Peters Gallery, New York 24 East 78th Street March 15 - May 18, 2019 Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe 1005 Paseo de Peralta
24 E. 78th St., NY, NY 10075 | (212) 628-9760 | gpgallery.com
THE GREEN BOTTLE, PARIS, 1907 oil on canvas, 18 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches
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ax Weber arrived in Paris in 1905 and enrolled at the Académies Julian and Colarossi, pursuing a traditional, academic course of study. He left Paris four
years later an avant-garde artist—an acolyte of Matisse, Picasso, Cézanne, and Rousseau—determined to change the course of art in the United States. By 1930, Weber had become a superstar, with a retrospective that year at the Museum of Modern Art, the first that institution had devoted to an American artist. Weber’s rise to stardom, however, was not marked by an easy line of successes, but rather by a trail of baffled critics, financial hardship, and a public whose tastes and perceptions were years behind Weber’s evolved vision. Between 1905 and 1930 Weber redefined art in America: he introduced modern European art but, more importantly, he established American art and artists as part of transatlantic modernism. Before the 1913 Armory Show, Weber was faced with an environment with only one established outlet for showcasing modern art (Stieglitz’s 291) and a public that was still enthralled by Impressionism. Weber persevered in filtering European Modernism through an American lens. His works from these years gave visual expression to the “new” and exist, in the words of Lloyd Goodrich, as “the most advanced experimental painting…produced in America in these years.” Max Weber: Becoming Modern focuses on these twenty-five years of struggle and experimentation during which Weber matured from student to master, guiding a reluctant public through a crash course on modern art and becoming a lodestone for American Modernism.
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ORCHESTRA CONCERT COLONNE CHATELET, PARIS, 1907 oil on panel, 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches
THE APOLLO IN MATISSE’S STUDIO, 1908 oil on canvas, 23 x 18 1/2 inches
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FIGURE IN CONTEMPLATION, 1909 gouache on paper 11 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches
PRIMITIVE MODEL, 1910, CAST 1958-59 silver, 6 1/2 x 1 3/4 x 1 7/8 inches
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DRESSING THE HAIR, 1910 gouache on paper on board 47 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches
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WOMAN SERVING, 1911 oil on academy board, 18 x 11 3/4 inches
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ABSTRACT STILL LIFE, 1914 pastel on paper, 21 x 17 inches
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UNTITLED, TWO FIGURES, 1912 ink on paper, 12 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches
DANCER, 1913 oil on paper mounted on canvas, 24 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches 10
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WOMEN IN GARDEN, 1912 watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper, 15 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches
DECORATION WITH CLOUD, 1913 oil on canvas, 60 3/8 x 40 3/8 inches
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FIGURE IN ROTATION, 1917 plaster and polychrome, 8 x 2 3/8 x 2 1/2 inches
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STANDING FEMALE, 1915 charcoal on paper mounted on board, 18 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches
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TWO WOMEN WITH FRUIT, 1918 oil on canvas, 22 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches
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SUSPENSE, 1920 oil on canvas, 39 1/2 x 32 inches
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LARGE PRIMITIVE HEAD IN PROFILE, 1920/21 color linoleum cut, 8 ¼ x 4 inches
FIGURE WITH GREEN BOOK, 1920 gouache on paper, 17 1/2 x 13 inches
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ITALIAN PITCHER, 1921 oil on canvas, 20 7/8 x 31 inches
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THE MELON, 1922 oil on canvas, 15 1/4 x 18 inches
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EGYPTIAN POT AND FRUIT, 1923 oil on canvas, 30 x 25 inches
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TRANQUILITY, 1928 oil on canvas, 32 x 40 1/4 inches
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WINTER SCENE, 1930 oil on canvas, 24 1/8 x 30 1/8 inches
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