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ALINE FRUHAUF (1907-1978) "Max Weber."
Illustration published in Fruhauf's book Making Faces: Memoirs of a Caricaturist, page 170 (Lanham, Maryland: Seven Locks Press, 1987). Watercolor with graphite on paper, 1937. 170x182 mm; 6 3/4x7 1/4 inches, image, on 9x10-inch sheet. Signed "Aline Fruhauf" in upper right corner, captioned "Weber" in pencil, lower margin. Matted to 21x14 inches. A First Edition copy of the book accompanies the artwork.
Provenance: Graham Gallery (label on frame backing); private collection, New York.
Exhibited: Corcoran Gallery of Art, "Aline Fruhauf: Caricatures," September 24-November 6, 1977 (label on frame backing).
Fruhauf was a successful and ambitious painter and caricaturist who studied at Parson's School of Design and The Art Students League. She is best known for her caricatures of celebrities in the worlds of theater, art, literature, politics, and law. For this image of the great modern painter among a restrospective group of his works, she admitted to finding herself "getting right into the paintings, absorbing their spirit, content, and brushwork." Having put so much emphasis on Weber's work than the artist himself, she put his "modest head and shoulders" in the right hand corner of the work as if he were the signature" identifying the works on the wall above him (page 170). "The Aline Fruhauf Papers" at the Archives of American Art research collection contains the majority of her personal correspondence and much of her art on paper.
