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Memories

Max Weber American, born former Russian Empire, now Poland
1912
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 965
In 1907, as a young art student in France, Weber befriended self-taught artist Henri Rousseau. By 1910, the year of the Frenchman’s death, Weber owned several of Rousseau’s paintings. In Memories, the decorative flattening of form and stylized figuration can be attributed partly to Rousseau’s posthumous influence. The painting shows a prim young woman in a landscape environment sparsely populated with objects—a tree, a vase, and, most mysterious, an image of two women in polka-dot dresses that seems to hover over her head.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Memories
  • Artist: Max Weber (American (born former Russian Empire, now Poland), Bialystok 1881–1961 Great Neck, New York)
  • Date: 1912
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 36 1/4 × 21 3/8 in. (92 × 54.3 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Purchase, George A. Hearn Fund, by exchange, 1991
  • Object Number: 1991.155
  • Rights and Reproduction: © Estate of Max Weber
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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