The Blue Vase

Artist Max Weber (American, 1881 - 1961)

Date1914

DimensionsFramed: H 30 3/4 x W 26 3/4 in. (H 78.1 x W 67.9 cm)
Image: H 24 1/4 x W 20 1/4 in. (H 61.6 x W 51.4 cm)

Credit LinePurchase (by exchange) 1986. Gift of Emilie Coles from the J. Ackerman Coles Collection, Mrs. Lewis B. Ballantyne and the Bequest of Louis Bamberger

Object number86.218

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Catalog Card The Blue Vase

Inscriptionsrecto: l.r. lilac paint "Max Weber 1914"Marks and Labels/Stamps[from old backing]: printed and typed paper label "Forum Gallery, 1018 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10021 / Title: Blue Vase / Artist: Max Weber / Medium: Oil Size: 24x20 / Date: 1914 FO#8438; u.r., printed and typed paper label "Museum of Fine Arts / S38.1.1981 / Max Weber / Blue Vase / Forum Gallery"; u.c., printed and typed paper label "Santa Fe East Galleries / Austin & Santa Fe / 200 Old Santa Fe Trail Santa Fe NM 87501 / Max Weber MW36 / Blue Vase 1914 / oil on canvas, 24 x 20 / [underlined] An Exhibtion of Works by Max Weber / Aug. 13 - Sept. 28, 1982"; stretcher: center bar, printed and handwritten paper label "Estate of Max Weber / Title: The Blue Vase / Media: oil on canvas / Size: 24 x 20 / Date: 1914 / Coll. of: "ProvenanceEstate of the artist; with Forum Gallery, New York, New York, 1975-1986 (as agent).Exhibition History"Max Weber: An Exhibition of Works," Santa Fe East Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, August 13-September 20, 1982.
"Max Weber," Joseph Chowning Gallery, San Francisco, CA, October 5-November 4, 1982.
"Max Weber," Forum Gallery, New York, October 25-November 14, 1975.
"Cubist Vision, Early and Late," Forum Gallery, New York, November 1-29, 1986.
"Max Weber: A Cubist Decade, 1910-1920," The High Musuem of Art, Atlanta, GA, November 23, 1991-February 2, 1992; traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, March 8-May 3, 1992; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 31-August 9, 1992; and The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, November 15, 1992-January 10, 1993.

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