Figure in Rotation
Max Weber American, born former Russian Empire, now Poland
Not on view
This sculpture reflects Weber's firsthand knowledge of the work of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, which he had seen in Paris when he studied there from 1905 to 1908. The nude's twisted torso and exaggerated, asymmetrical facial features are typical Cubist distortions which also appear in his contemporaneous paintings. The stylized, masklike face also indicates Weber's interest at the time in African and Oceanic art. Although he worked primarily as a painter, he did produce some of the first sculptural abstractions in America during the 1910s.
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