This is a superb original signed woodcut by internationally acclaimed artist MAX WEBER (1881-1961), dating from 1919-20.

One of the most stylistically pioneering of the early modernists, Max Weber was a key figure in introducing avant-garde art to America.  He worked in the mediums of oil, watercolor, printmaking and sculpture, and his subjects sometimes reflected the spiritualism of his religion.  His styles included Fauvism, Cubism, Dynamism, Expressionism, and Futurism and reflected the broad spectrum of revolutionary art activity in Paris at the turn of the 19th into the 20th centuries. He also created some social-realist paintings during the 1930s with depictions of factory scenes. He was a writer on topics of modern aesthetics including The Fourth Dimension from a Plastic Point of View, published in "Camera Work" in July 1910. He was from a strong Jewish background, having been born in Bialystok, Russia, and in 1891, he settled in Brooklyn.  At the Pratt Institute, he studied with Arthur Wesley Dow from whom he learned to see forms as visual relationships rather than objects.  He taught public school art in Lynchburg, Virginia from 1901 to 1903, and Duluth, Minnesota from 1903 to 1905, and then studied in Paris at the Academie Julian, Academie Colarossi, and Academie de la Grande Chaumiere. He was much influenced by Cubist artists Pablo Picasso and George Braque and then returned to New York in 1909, where he experimented with many modernist styles. He was among the first American artists to show an interest in Indians of the American Southwest, and in 1913, his one-man exhibition at the Newark Museum was the first exhibition of an American museum for a modernist artist.

This rare original woodcut is entitled "Dancing Figure" (Rubenstein 14), and is signed in pencil by the artist on the front lower right "Max Weber". It is also inscribed by the artist on the sheet lower edge: "With kindest regards to Richard Klix from Max Weber". It measures 6 ½" x 10 ¼" (sheet), 2" x 4 ¼" (image), and is matted and framed for a total size of 8 ¼" x 12" (there is some wear to the frame). It is in good condition aside from some pale spots which may be foxing or just the nature of the paper. PROVENANCE: ex Richard Klix Collection. Authenticity is GUARANTEED. Shipping is $25.00 within the US only, please email for international shipping rates. Please view my other auctions and eBay store for additional museum quality fine art and collectibles.