FREUD, SIGMUND]. STRUCK, HERMANN (1876-1944). Etching, a bust portrait of Freud, facing left, signed by the artist ("Hermann Struck") and by the subject ("Sigm. Freud"). [Vienna] 1914. Etching with aquatint. Plate: 150 x 110 mm. (5 7.8 x 4 1.4 in). The sheet: 284 x 227 mm (11 1.8 x 9 in), the full sheet in a float mat and glazed in a gilt-wood Number 13 of 150. Numbering and signatures in pencil in lower blank margin. One of several portraits executed of Freud by the artist; this print depicting the professor at about age 58. The rendering is one which pleased the subject, to judge by the comments in Freud's letter to Struck of 7 November 1914: "The etching strikes me as a charming idealization, This is how I should like to look, and I may even be on the way there, but it seems to me I have got stuck halfway. Everything that is shaggy and angular about me you have made smooth amd rounded....You have put my [hair] parting on one side...Furthermore my hairline runs across the temple in a rather concave curve. By rounding it off you have greatly improved upon it. Very likely this correction was intentional. In a word, I feel the etching to be a great honor. Each time I look at it I like it better!" ( Letters , ed. Ernst Freud, p.306). Stanford 77; Norman F168.
FREUD, SIGMUND]. STRUCK, HERMANN (1876-1944). Etching, a bust portrait of Freud, facing left, signed by the artist ("Hermann Struck") and by the subject ("Sigm. Freud"). [Vienna] 1914. Etching with aquatint. Plate: 150 x 110 mm. (5 7.8 x 4 1.4 in). The sheet: 284 x 227 mm (11 1.8 x 9 in), the full sheet in a float mat and glazed in a gilt-wood Number 13 of 150. Numbering and signatures in pencil in lower blank margin. One of several portraits executed of Freud by the artist; this print depicting the professor at about age 58. The rendering is one which pleased the subject, to judge by the comments in Freud's letter to Struck of 7 November 1914: "The etching strikes me as a charming idealization, This is how I should like to look, and I may even be on the way there, but it seems to me I have got stuck halfway. Everything that is shaggy and angular about me you have made smooth amd rounded....You have put my [hair] parting on one side...Furthermore my hairline runs across the temple in a rather concave curve. By rounding it off you have greatly improved upon it. Very likely this correction was intentional. In a word, I feel the etching to be a great honor. Each time I look at it I like it better!" ( Letters , ed. Ernst Freud, p.306). Stanford 77; Norman F168.
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