Portrait of Abraham Walkowitz

Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
A true product of a multicultural society in Ptolemaic Egypt, this statuette combines a classical image of the Greek goddess Aphrodite appearing from the sea, just born, with the typically Egyptian material, faience. Egyptian artists achieved the characteristic brilliant blue of faience in a complex process combining ground quartz with a mixture of alkali.
Caption
Ladislas Segy American, born 1904. Portrait of Abraham Walkowitz, ca. 1944. Oil on academy board, 19 7/8 × 16 in. (50.5 × 40.6 cm) frame: 29 1/16 × 24 7/8 × 2 3/4 in. (73.8 × 63.2 × 7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the artist, 44.70. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 44.70_PS1.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Portrait of Abraham Walkowitz
Date
ca. 1944
Medium
Oil on academy board
Classification
Dimensions
19 7/8 × 16 in. (50.5 × 40.6 cm) frame: 29 1/16 × 24 7/8 × 2 3/4 in. (73.8 × 63.2 × 7 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower right: "SEGY"
Credit Line
Gift of the artist
Accession Number
44.70
Rights
© artist or artist's estate
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