Max Weber (1881-1961)
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Max Weber (1881-1961)

Sugar Bowl

Details
Max Weber (1881-1961)
Sugar Bowl
signed 'Max Weber' (lower right)--inscribed with title (on a label affixed to the backing)
oil on canvas
18 x 15¼ in. (45.7 x 38.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1927.
Provenance
The artist.
Estate of the above.
[With]Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2006.
Literature
The Art Institute of Chicago, The Forty-First Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture at The Art Institute of Chicago, exhibition catalogue, Chicago, Illinois, 1928, p. 31, no. 172 (as Still Life).
American Artists Group, Max Weber, New York, 1945, n.p., illustrated.
L. Goodrich, Max Weber: Retrospective Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1949, p. 61, no. 32.
A. Werner, Max Weber, New York, 1975, n.p., pl. 83, illustrated.
Exhibited
Chicago, Illinois, The Forty-First Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago, October 25-December 16, 1928, no. 172 (as Still Life).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, and elsewhere, Max Weber: Retrospective Exhibition, February 5-March 27, 1949, no. 32.
New York, The Jewish Museum, n.d., no. 62.
New York, Gerald Peters Gallery, and elsewhere, Max Weber: Painting the Object, Four Decades of Still Life Painting, May 8-26, 2006.

Lot Essay

The present work was awarded the Potter Palmer Gold Medal in 1928.

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