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ALAN MAGEE (american b. 1947) "THE LOST MEMLING" Signed 'Alan Magee' bottom right; also with '©' and dated '1999' bottom left, and with 'All Rights Reserved' sticker verso, acrylic and graphite on paper laid down to cardboard Sheet size: 15 3/4 x 19 15/16 in. (40 x 50.6cm) provenance: Forum Gallery, New York, New York. Acquired directly from the above in 2015. Collection of Bonnie O'Boyle, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. EXHIBITED: "Forty-Fourth Collector's Show and Sale," Arkansas Arts Center, North Little Rock, Arkansas, December 6, 2013-January 5, 2014. NOTE: "The Lost Memling is my homage to the great Northern Renaissance portraitist Hans Memling… The paint brush and sharpened pencil in my painting represent the tools that I use, but they also allude to the careful observation and exacting craft of Memling himself. The motto 'De Bien En Mieuls' was painted by Memling on a trompe l'oeil ribboned band on the reverse side of the portrait. The language is a variant of medieval French and means 'from good to better.'" - Alan Magee