Head and Shoulders of Figure

1919-1920

Max Weber

Associated Names
Max Weber

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

The image depicts a stylized representation of a person's face. The head is exaggeratedly elongated with abstract facial features including arched eyebrows, simplified eyes, an elongated nose, and mouth. The hair is shown as dark patterns on the sides, with a blue cap-like shape on top. The clothing is minimalistic with lapel-like patterns and two green dots below the face. The background is plain, and a brown rectangular border encloses the image with the artist's signature, "Max Weber," at the bottom right corner.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color woodcut on laid paper mounted to paperboard

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jack and Margrit Vanderryn

  • Dimensions

    image: 10.8 × 4.92 cm (4 1/4 × 1 15/16 in.)
    mount: 30.48 × 21.59 cm (12 × 8 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.114.16

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rubenstein 2013, no. 24

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Christie's, New York, September 25, 2002, sale 1111, lot 228); Jack and Margrit Vanderryn, Bethesda, Maryland, 2002; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

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. 36, 174-178, fig. 4, no. 24.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: MAX WEBER; lower mount in graphite by unknown hand: 1558; lower verso mount in graphite by unknown hand: 8

Wikidata ID

Q75407210

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