Aaron Anderson
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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, MARYLAND
Lot 22
Max Weber(1881-1961)Winter Twilight 30 1/8 x 40 1/8 in. (76.5 x 101.9 cm.)
7 November 2023, 14:00 EST
New YorkUS$20,000 - US$30,000
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Max Weber (1881-1961)
Winter Twilight
signed 'Max Weber' (lower right)
oil on canvas
30 1/8 x 40 1/8 in. (76.5 x 101.9 cm.)
Painted in 1938.
signed 'Max Weber' (lower right)
oil on canvas
30 1/8 x 40 1/8 in. (76.5 x 101.9 cm.)
Painted in 1938.
Footnotes
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Buell Hammett, Santa Barbara, 1941.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, gift from the above, 1945.
Sale, Sotheby's, New York, May 27, 1998, lot 335.
Sale, Hindman, Chicago, December 15, 2003, lot 7.
Sale, Hindman, Chicago, May 20, 2020, lot 93.
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale.
Exhibited
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Painting Today and Yesterday in the United States, June 5-September 1, 1941.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Fifty-second Annual Exhibition of American Paintings & Sculpture, October 30, 1941-January 4, 1942, n.p., no. 214, pl. II, illustrated.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Romantic Painting in America, November 17, 1943-February 6, 1944, pp. 40, 92, no. 203, illustrated.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Max Weber: Retrospective Exhibition, February 5-March 27, 1949, pp. 32, 43, 61, no. 45, illustrated and elsewhere.
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, The American Scene: 1710-1940, April 17-May 6, 1956.
The Art Galleries, University of California at Santa Barbara, First Comprehensive Retrospective Exhibition in the West of oils, gouaches, pastels, drawings and graphic works by Max Weber (1881-1961), February 6-March 3, 1968, pp. 29, 61, no. 31, illustrated and elsewhere.
Literature
American Artist Group, Inc., Max Weber, Illustrated Monographs 4, New York, 1945, n.p., illustrated.
Max Weber's Winter Twilight has a long-standing tie to the Santa Barbara area. The work was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Buell Hammett for permanent loan to the Santa Barbara Museum in 1941. The present work was included in the Santa Barabra Museum's inaugural exhibition, Painting Today and Yesterday in the United States, and entered the museum's permanent collection in 1945.