SALVADOR DALÍ | Portrait de Freud (recto verso)

Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris
Paul Eluard, Paris
André-François Petit, Paris
Thence by descent to the current owner

Tokyo, Prince Hotel Gallery, Salvador Dali 1964, no. 87, illustrated p. 67
Paris, Galerie André-Francois Petit, Obsessions et visions, 1968, no. 17, illustrated
Düsseldorf, Städische Kunsthalle ; Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Surrealität, Bildrealität, 1924-1974, In den unzähligen Bildern des Lebens..., 1974-75,  no. 42, illustrated p. 67
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Vienne 1880-1938 : l'apocalypse joyeuse, 1986, p. 363, illustrated in the catalogue
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beunigen, Dali, 1970-71, no. 122, illustrated in the catalogue 
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Salavador Dali : rétrospective 1920-1980, 1979-80, no.  195, illustrated p. 261
London, The Tate Gallery, Salvador Dali, 1980, no. 183, listed p. 29
Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie ; Zurich, Kunsthaus, Salvador Dali 1904-1989, 1989, no. 204, illustrated in the catalogue

Robert Descharnes, Dali. L'oeuvre et l'homme, Lausanne, 1984, illustrated p. 232
Robert Descharnes et Gilles Néret, Salvador Dali, 1904-1989, L’œuvre peint, Tome I, Cologne, 1993, no. 665, illustrated p. 299

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, hinged to the mount in two points along the upper edge. The upper and left edges are deckled. Recto: There is a small repaired tear to the upper left corner (approx. 1 cm long) and a further smaller repaired tear to the right part of the lower edge. There are scattered dots of foxing. Verso: There are scattered dots of foxing and some minor paper skinning to the lower right corner. There is a small strip of discolouration along the upper edge. This work is in overall good condition.
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Drawn in London on July 19, 1938, this is a life portrait drawing of Sigmund Freud, done in the sitter’s presence in his London home upon Dali’s sole meeting with the founder of psychoanalysis. During the visit, in the company of Stefan Zweig, Dali made two portraits, both of which prophetically depicted Freud in his final months prior to his death. At the meeting, Freud made comments on Dali’s painting Metamorphosis of Narcissus (1937) and remarked that Dali “looks like a fanatic – small wonder that they have a Civil War in Spain if you look like that”. This extraordinary meeting of three iconic personalities had a profound impact on Dali’s interest in psychoanalysis, his approach to Surrealism and the world of dreams.