Standing Nude

1919-1920

Max Weber

Associated Names
Max Weber

Artist, American, born Russia (now Poland), 1881 - 1961

The image shows a stylized representation of a standing person. The figure has one arm raised to the forehead and the other across the torso. The face has abstract features with a long nose, prominent eyes, and red lips, while the hair is dark and straight. The body is depicted in shades of brown and tan with abstract shading and highlighting. Abstract patterns in red, green, and white surround the figure. The artwork is signed "Max Weber" at the bottom.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color woodcut on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jack and Margrit Vanderryn

  • Dimensions

    image: 8.1 × 3.97 cm (3 3/16 × 1 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 25.72 × 16.99 cm (10 1/8 × 6 11/16 in.)
    mount: 27.94 × 17.78 cm (11 × 7 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.114.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rubenstein 2013, no. 8

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Forum Gallery, New York); Jack and Margrit Vanderryn, Bethesda, Maryland, 2000; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1922

  • Broom: An International Magazine of the Arts 3, no. 1 (August 1922).

1926

  • Weber, Max. Primitives: Poems and Woodcuts. New York: Spiral Press, 1926.

1956

  • Weber, Max. Woodcuts and Linoleum Blocks. New York: E. Weyhe, 1956.

2002

  • Burk, Efram L. "A Singular Vision: Max Weber's Artist Book, Primitives." Southeastern College Art Conference Review 14, no. 2 (2002): 127-136.

2013

  • Rubenstein, Daryl R. Max Weber: A Catalogue Raisonné of His Graphic Work. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 2013, pp. 130-132, no. 8.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: MAX WEBER

Wikidata ID

Q75407053

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