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Portrait of Piet van der Hem

(Dutch, 1873 – 1949)
1918
Medium/TechniqueOil on panel
DimensionsFramed: 48.3 × 38.7 × 1.9 cm (19 × 15 1/4 × 3/4 in.)
Image: 42.5 × 33 cm (16 3/4 × 13 in.)
Credit LineThe Maida and George Abrams Collection—Gift in honor of Clifford S. Ackley, William W. Robinson, and in memory of Justice Ruth I. Abrams
Accession number2021.309
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Inscriptionssigned and dated lower right: Willy Sluiter / VD / 1918
ProvenanceLaurina Johanna Wilson van Gelder (b. 1889 - d. after 1959), The Hague; until 2000, possibly by descent within the family [see note]; June 7, 2000, anonymous sale, Sotheby's, Amsterdam, lot 20, to a private collector; November 26, 2014, anonymous (private collector) sale, Christie's, Amsterdam, lot 330, to George S. Abrams, Newton, MA; 2021, gift of George S. Abrams to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 14, 2021)

NOTE: Provenance according to the 2000 Sotheby's sale. Two paintings from the Wilson-van Gelder collection were included in this auction.