Russian Ballet

Max Weber

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

In the evening Richards filled sketchbooks with pencil drawings of landscapes, coasts, and seas under all effects of light and weather. These monochromatic yet light-filled studies, each image framed with a border, were rendered in subtle tonal modulations and intended as exercises in composition. This page depicts a memory of the ruins of Tintagel on the Cornish coast. Although small in size, these little drawings possess a luminous sense of space and represent as purely subjective and poetic a response to light, space, and the sea as is to be found in Richards’s oeuvre.

Caption

Max Weber American, born Russia, 1881–1961. Russian Ballet, 1916. Oil on canvas, 30 x 36in. (76.2 x 91.4cm) frame: 39 1/4 h x 45 1/2 x 3 3/8 in. (99.7 x 115.6 x 8.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Edith and Milton Lowenthal, 1992.11.29. No known copyright restrictions (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1992.11.29_SL1.jpg)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

American Art

Artist

Max Weber

Title

Russian Ballet

Date

1916

Medium

Oil on canvas

Classification

Painting

Dimensions

30 x 36in. (76.2 x 91.4cm) frame: 39 1/4 h x 45 1/2 x 3 3/8 in. (99.7 x 115.6 x 8.6 cm)

Signatures

Signed lower right: "Max Weber 1916"

Credit Line

Bequest of Edith and Milton Lowenthal

Accession Number

1992.11.29

Rights

No known copyright restrictions

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Frequent Art Questions

  • This reminds me of Kandinsky's work. Would Weber's style be considered similar?

    Yes! They definitely both work with abstract, brightly colored geometric forms. As the title suggests, this painting is inspired by a performance and Kandinsky was often inspired by performance, music especially. Plus, both artists got their start in the Russian avant garde movement at the turn of the 20th century.
    Thanks!

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