Portrait photograph signed ("Sigm. Freud").
No place, 1922.
The image by Max Halberstadt, Hamburg, 300 x 231 mm, blindstamped at lower left corner. Signed at the lower right. Glazed and framed.
€ 55,000.00
In 1922 Freud was working on "The Ego and the Id" (published April 1923), the last of his major theoretical works, which suggested a new structural model of the mind. The photograph by Max Halberstadt (1882-1940) was taken in the previous year, at a sitting which also yielded one of the most of famous images of Freud, standing in profile and holding a cigar. Halberstadt was married to Freud's daughter Sophie who died in 1920, while pregnant with their third child.
Provenance
Provenance: Christie’s London, 14 November 2007, lot 41.
