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Accession #	44.70
Artist	Ladislas Segy
Title	Portrait of Abraham Walkowitz
Date	ca. 1944
Medium	Oil on academy board
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)
Signed	Signed lower right: "SEGY"
Credit Line	Gift of the artist
Location	Visible Storage: Case 23, Screen C (Paintings)

Curatorial Remarks: 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.