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Robert Longo — Freud’s Desk and Chair
Robert Longo — Freud’s Desk and Chair
Robert Longo — Freud’s Desk and Chair
Robert Longo

Freud’s Desk and Chair

Robert Longo ’s Freud’s Desk and Chair, Study Room (from The Freud Cycle) translates archival photographs of Sigmund Freud’s sealed Vienna apartment into his striking visual language. The stark digital pigment print captures Freud’s absence through the imposing presence of his desk and chair, evoking both the trauma of exile and the lingering aura of a space once central to psychoanalytic thought. The artwork resonates as a meditation on memory, loss, and the haunting afterlife of history.

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Prints

Notes

From MLTPL New Art Editions collection. Handle: robert-longo-freud-s-desk-and-chair.

For Sale — $8900

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Robert Longo, Freud’s Desk and Chair

Robert Longo ’s Freud’s Desk and Chair, Study Room (from The Freud Cycle) translates archival photographs of Sigmund Freud’s sealed Vienna apartment into his striking visual language. The stark digital pigment print captures Freud’s absence through the imposing presence of his desk and chair, evoking both the trauma of exile and the lingering aura of a space once central to psychoanalytic thought. The artwork resonates as a meditation on memory, loss, and the haunting afterlife of history.

Medium
Prints
Seen at
MLTPL, Hamburg

Related themes

Historical Subject, Interior Scene, Printmaking, Figurative Art, Realism, Contemporary Art, American Art, Psychoanalysis

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Collected by

Alex Capecelatro, Hamilton Selway Gallery