Beautification

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Three nude women sit arranging their hair. One sits on the floor examining herself in a hand mirror, another woman is seated on a chair to the left, and the third women sits in a chair at the right. A landscape is slightly visible through a window in the background.

Artist Max Weber (American, 1881–1961)

Title Beautification

Date 1932

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Overall: 39 3/4 x 48 in. (101 x 121.9 cm)
Framed: 48 1/2 × 56 1/2 × 3 3/8 in. (123.2 × 143.5 × 8.6 cm)

Credit Line Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Henry R. Hope, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 79.107

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Born in the Russian Empire, Max Weber and his family immigrated to the United States in 1891, settling in Brooklyn. After studying art in New York and Paris, he became one of the foremost American advocates of abstraction and cubism in painting. After World War I, however, Weber focused on a more expressionistic, figurative style. Themes from his Jewish heritage and the human body became his primary subjects. In Beautification, depicting three nude women arranging their hair, Weber meditates upon beauty, vanity, and the female figure.

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