About the Object
This plaster sculpture features the twisting form of a nude woman. The Cubist treatment of the body and the emphasis on her eyes recalls the masked faces of the women in Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907, in the Museum of Modern Art, while the treatment of her hair is reminiscent of Matisse’s early figurative sculpture including Reclining Nude I, 1907, in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
Additional Information
Weber initially modeled this figure in 1917, creating this plaster enlargement circa 1948 and casting it in bronze in a series of three, one of which is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Artist;
Estate of the Artist;
[Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, NY];
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. Max Weber Retrospective (February 5-March 27, 1949); Minneapolis. Walker Art Center (April 17-May 29, 1949); p. 64, cat. no. 160.
New York. Forum Gallery. Max Weber: Sculpture, Drawings & Prints. October 27-November 24, 1979, cat. no. 32, ill. on front cover.
New York. Gerald Peters Gallery. Cast and Carved: American Sculpture: 1850-1950. November 9-December 17, 2004, 119, ill, np.
Tulsa. Philbrook Museum of Art. From New York to New Mexico: Masterworks of American Modernism from the Vilcek Foundation Collection (February 8-May 3, 2015); Phoenix. Phoenix Art Museum (June 5-September 6, 2015); Santa Fe. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum (September 25, 2015-January 10, 2016).
Other/unspecified casts:
New York. Forum Gallery. Max Weber. October 25-November 14, 1975, n.p., cat. no. 68.
New Brunswick, New Jersey. Vanguard American Sculpture: 1913-1939 (September 16-November 4, 1979); Chapel Hill, North Carolina. William Hayes Ackland Art Center (December 4, 1979-January 20, 1980); Omaha, Nebraska. Joslyn Art Museum (February 16-March 30, 1980); Oakland, California. The Oakland Museum (April 15-May 25, 1980), pp. 32-33, 159, ill. p. 33, fig. no. 38.
Wichita, Kansas. Wichita Art Museum. Max Weber: Pioneer of American Modernism. March 6-April 10, 1983, p. 15.
New York. Forum Gallery. Max Weber: Cubist Vision: Early and Late. November 1-29, 1986, p. 11.
Forum Gallery advertisement, Art in America 67, (October 1979), ill. p. 52.
Forum Gallery advertisement, Art News 78 (October 1979), ill. p. 1.
Forum Gallery advertisement, Arts Magazine 54 (October 1979), ill. p. 30.
Agee, William C. and Lewis Kachur. Masterpieces of American Modernism: From the Vilcek Collection. London: Merrell, 2013, pp. 110-111, 240, 269, ill. pp. 110, 111.
Pochoda, Elizabeth. “Freedom and the abstract truth: Jan and Marica Vilcek’s collection of American modernist art,” The Magazine Antiques (May/June 2013), ill. pp. 100, 101.
O’Hern, John. “Modern Manor,” American Fine Art Magazine, September/October 2013, ill. p. 64.
Other/unspecified casts:
Canady, John. “New Talent Fifty Years Ago,” Art in America 47, 1 (Spring 1959), ill. p. 23.
Tarbell, Roberta Kupfrian. “John Storrs and Max Weber: Early Life and Work.” Masters Thesis, University of Delaware, 1968, pp. 72, 74, 78, 158, ill. p. 158, fig. 60.
Werner, Alfred. Max Weber. New York: Harry Abrams, 1975, ill. np. pl.58.
Tarbell, Roberta K. “The Impact of the Armory Show on American Sculpture.” Archives of American Art Journal 18, No. 2 (1978), p. 9, ill. p. 9, fig. 22.
Review of Forum show, Art News 79 (February 1980), pp. 199-200, ill. p. 200.
Tolles, Thayer, ed. American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume II: A Catalogue of Artists Born between 1865-1885. New York: The Museum, 1999-2001, p. 656, ill. p. 656, cat. no. 300.
Forum Gallery advertisement, Art News 105, no. 2 (February 2006), ill. p. 5.
Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts advertisement, Art & Auction 30, no. 3 (November 2006), ill. p. 2.
