Reclining Nude
Max Weber
American, born Russia. 1881–1961
1930-32
A small woodcut of a reclining nude in which Weber reduces the body to bold, carved planes and textured marks to probe form and feeling.
Your eye is drawn to a narrow horizontal bar of warm brown where the figure is flattened into rhythmic, carved contours and a mottled, tactile surface that makes the pose feel both compact and muscular.
The print exemplifies Weber’s fusion of Cubist simplification and expressionist woodcut technique, part of his work bringing modernist, sculptural figuration into American printmaking.
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
composition: 1 11/16 x 5 1/4" (4.3 x 13.3 cm); sheet: 6 7/8 x 9 1/16" (17.5 x 23 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the artist
Accession
480.1954
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