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Portuguese Sailor (Portrait of a Man)
Image Not Available for Portuguese Sailor (Portrait of a Man)

Portuguese Sailor (Portrait of a Man)

Polly Thayer (American, 1904–2006)
about 1928
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
DimensionsFramed: 62.2 × 76.2 cm (24 1/2 × 30 in.)
Unframed: 18 × 24 in. (45.7 × 61 cm)
Credit LineGift of Arthur M. Cohen and Daryl R. Otte
Accession number2022.1302
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
ProvenanceBy 1998, sold by the Copley Society of Boston to Arthur M. Cohen and Daryl R. Otte, New York; 2022, gift of Arthur M. Cohen and Daryl R. Otte to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 22, 2022)
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