FREUD SIGMUND Etched portrait by Hermann Struck Signed freud

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IDEAL PORTRAIT FREUD, SIGMUND. Etched portrait by Hermann Struck Signed, "freud," in pencil, lower right. Additionally signed by Struck and numbered 14/20. Approximately 5 1/2x4 1/4 inches (image), approximately 8x6 1/2 inches overall. Np, [circa 1914]

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After reviewing proofs of this portrait, Freud wrote to Struck on November 7, 1914: "The etching strikes me as a charming idealization. This is how I should like to look . . . . Everything that is shaggy and angular about me you have made smooth and rounded. In my opinion an element of unlikeness has been introduced by something unimportant, by your treatment of my hair. . . . In a word, I feel the etching to be a great honour. Each time I look at it I like it better." Translated from Briefe 1873-1939, ed. Ernst and Lucie Freud, 1968.