(Founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939). Printed Card with Autograph Note Signed, in German.

Estimate: $3,000–$5,000
Hammer price: $2,500

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author

FREUD, SIGMUND

Place

(Vienna

Publication

1936)

Description

Printed text: “Many thanks for your participation in the celebrations of my 80th birthday. May, 1936.” With inscription: “Your devoted friend, Freud. - I did not know you were in Palestine.”

summary

Although the recipient is unnamed, clearly (s)he was a member of the circle of Jews who fled Nazi Germany for the safer shores of Palestine. Freud himself was forced to flee Nazism for London in early June, 1938. He was to die just 15 months later.

Framed, alongside portrait photograph.

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