Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Max Weber at Auction and In Galleries


On December 21, 1908, Max Weber, a twenty-seven-year-old Russian-born naturalized American, left Paris to return to New York where he would profoundly affect the course of American art as a painter, printmaker, sculptor, poet, essayist, and teacher. Henri “le Douanier” Rousseau, the visionary genius of French modernism, accompanied him to the Gare St. Lazare and called out to his departing friend, “N’oubliez pas la nature, Weber.” As Rousseau advised, Weber did not forget nature, and the natural world informed his work throughout his impressive sixty-year career. Best known today for his monumental cubist and futurist images of Manhattan from the 1910s, Weber redefined traditional subjects of figures, still life, and landscape to reflect his twentieth-century sensibility and touched on virtually every phase of modernism prior to his death in 1961.

Sotheby's 2015



Max Weber
TALMUDISTS
Estimate  8,000 — 12,000  USD
LOT SOLD. 18,750 USD



Max Weber
RECITAL
Estimate  10,000 — 15,000  USD
LOT SOLD. 15,000 USD


Sotheby's 2013



Max Weber 1881 - 1961
SOLOIST AT WANAMAKER'S
Estimate  15,000 — 20,000  USD
 LOT SOLD. 112,500 USD



Max Weber
TWO PATRIARCHS
Estimate  8,000 — 12,000  USD
 LOT SOLD. 8,750 USD (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)


Christy's 2014



MAX WEBER (1881-1961)
Still Life 
Price Realized  $12,500
Estimate
$12,000 - $18,000

Christie's 2012



MAX WEBER (1881-1961)
Burlesque #1 
Price Realized 
$506,500 Estimate
$300,000 - $500,000

Swann 2015



MAX WEBER
Woman with a White Veil.
Estimate $1,500 - $2,500
Price Realized (with Buyer's Premium) $3,000


Gerald Peters Gallery


Max Weber, 'The Brown Pitcher,' 1953




Max Weber, Pitcher, Vase, and Fruit, 1911, watercolor on paper, 18 3/8 x 24 inches 



Max Weber, Chinese Platter, ca. 1918, oil on canvas, 16 x 18 inches 


Max Weber Four Figures (Sisters) c 1912.