Max Weber (1881-1961)
Max Weber painted this
small canvas the year after his marriage, and some scholars
have attributed the quiet, decorative sensibility of this
and other of his works to the calming influence of domestic
life. In this Cubist rendering of a cellist, the figure's
closed eyes hint at the ecstasies of making music. The
shadowy profile of a woman's head that helps to define the
musician's torso and merges with the cello may rely on a
traditional iconography in which the curved shapes of the
instrument were metaphors for the female form. Medium: Oil
on canvas. Dates: 1917. Dimensions: 41.0 x 51.1 cm. Credit:
Gift of Mrs. Edward Rosenberg. Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum