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Magnificent , Richly Colored Original Oil Painting, signed MAX WEBER and Dated 1915.

The dimensions of the Work framed are 35 x 30 inches and the painting alone is 24 x 29 1/2 inches. The painting is entitled " VILLAGE STREET ", and is possibly of Greenwich Village or even a European village.

Prior to that, the frame, as you will note, identifies the painting as from the collection of Pennerton West at 140 McDougal Street--in Greenwich Village. (PENNERTON WEST b NY CITY 1913-d NY 1965). Pennerton West was a direct descendant of the famous American historical painter Benjamin West (1738-1820), and an active exhibitor at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, and was closely associated with the New York School of abstract expressionist and figurative painters. She studied at the Art Student's League , Cooper Union , and with Hans Hofmann , William Hayter and Ibram Lassaw . She was a member of Stanley Hayter's avant-garde Atelier 17, which taught luminaries like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Alexander Calder, and others. Pennerton West (former owner of this oil painting ) made beautiful prints and paintings which are in numerous museum collections.

Max Weber is is a blue chip, well listed great 20th Century Polish-born Cubist Expressionist American Master with an excellent auction record. In his lifetime, Weber was awarded a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.

This is an estate find, in estate condition, acquired from the dealer who handled the estate of modernist art collector Edith Hoefly. As such, t is no documentation, and this is offered at an extremely low starting price, with NO RESERVE at a starting price which represents a small fraction of my initial investment in 2007. Even though t is no reserve on this beautiful work, I trust it will reach a price worthy of its caliber.

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I can appreciate no serious damages and note only a few small paint losses in some areas that might not be apparent in the photos and some old water stains visible on the back, confirming the age of the painting.

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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY :

Max Weber ( April 18 , 1881 - October 4 , 1961 ) was a Polish-American painter who worked in the style of cubism before migrating to Jewish themes towards the end of his life. Born in Białystok , then part of Poland occupied by Russia , he immigrated to America with his parents at the age of 10. He studied art at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn under Arthur Wesley Dow . In 1905 he had saved enough money to travel to Paris and study at Matisse 's School of Paris w he learned modernism and cubism from the likes of Henri Rousseau and Pablo Picasso . In 1909 he returned to New York and helped to introduce cubism to America.In 1930 the Museum of Modern Art held a retrospective of his work, the first solo exhibition at that museum of an American artist.

One of the most stylistically pioneering of the early modernists, Max Weber was a key figure in introducing avant-garde art to America. He worked in the mediums of oil, watercolor, printmaking and sculpture, and his subjects sometimes reflected the spiritualism of his religion. His styles included Fauvism, Cubism, Dynamism, Expressionism, and Futurism and reflected the broad spectrum of revolutionary art activity in Paris at the turn of the 19th into the 20th centuries. He also created some social-realist paintings during the 1930s with depictions of factory scenes. These works reflected his left-wing political leanings, which he expressed as national chairman of the American Artists Congress, "the most powerful left-wing artists' organization of the period" (Baigell). He was a writer on topics of modern aesthetics including 'The Fourth Dimension from a Plastic Point of View', published in "Camera Work" in July 1910.

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