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Auction archive: Lot number 182

FREUD, Sigmund (1856-1939) – HALBERSTADT, Max (1882-1940). Photographic portrait of Sigmund Freud, signed by the sitter ("Prof. Sigmund Freud"), Hamburg (blind-stamped on margin), c.1921.

Estimate
US$15,000 - US$20,000
Price realised:
US$37,500
Auction archive: Lot number 182

FREUD, Sigmund (1856-1939) – HALBERSTADT, Max (1882-1940). Photographic portrait of Sigmund Freud, signed by the sitter ("Prof. Sigmund Freud"), Hamburg (blind-stamped on margin), c.1921.

Estimate
US$15,000 - US$20,000
Price realised:
US$37,500
Beschreibung:

FREUD, Sigmund (1856-1939) – HALBERSTADT, Max (1882-1940). Photographic portrait of Sigmund Freud, signed by the sitter ("Prof. Sigmund Freud"), Hamburg (blind-stamped on margin), c.1921. The iconic portrait of the founder of psychoanalysis, signed by Freud . A half-length portrait of Freud holding a cigar, inscribed by him in the mount, in English: "Prof. Sigm. Freud with kind regards 1921." "This famous photograph of the founder of psychoanalysis was taken by his nephew Max Halberstadt, and it may be the only existing print made from the original negative. The inscription is unusual in that it is inscribed in English and uses the title 'Professor'” (M. Wesley Marans Collection of Signed Photographs). Gelatin silver print (225 x 165mm), mounted on card (335 x 235mm), (light wear to surface in the upper blank portion of the image), framed (not examined out of the frame). Provenance : M. Wesley Marans (his sale, Christie’s East, 17 April 1996, lot 46).

Auction archive: Lot number 182
Auction:
Datum:
5 Dec 2017
Auction house:
Christie's
New York
Beschreibung:

FREUD, Sigmund (1856-1939) – HALBERSTADT, Max (1882-1940). Photographic portrait of Sigmund Freud, signed by the sitter ("Prof. Sigmund Freud"), Hamburg (blind-stamped on margin), c.1921. The iconic portrait of the founder of psychoanalysis, signed by Freud . A half-length portrait of Freud holding a cigar, inscribed by him in the mount, in English: "Prof. Sigm. Freud with kind regards 1921." "This famous photograph of the founder of psychoanalysis was taken by his nephew Max Halberstadt, and it may be the only existing print made from the original negative. The inscription is unusual in that it is inscribed in English and uses the title 'Professor'” (M. Wesley Marans Collection of Signed Photographs). Gelatin silver print (225 x 165mm), mounted on card (335 x 235mm), (light wear to surface in the upper blank portion of the image), framed (not examined out of the frame). Provenance : M. Wesley Marans (his sale, Christie’s East, 17 April 1996, lot 46).

Auction archive: Lot number 182
Auction:
Datum:
5 Dec 2017
Auction house:
Christie's
New York
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