THE MAYBE MAN Painting

'The Maybe Man’ is a copy of van Dyck’s, Studies of a Man’s Head, a work that hangs in the Rockox House Museum, Antwerp. I’ve never seen the original. I made this copy from photographs. Who is the model? Was he a real person, a real someone who lived and breathed? Or was he just a figment - a pigment figment - of the great artist’s imagination? Perhaps some scholar, some art historian, could share her scholarship and tell us. Perhaps if I drilled down far enough, through endless webs, I could un-Google the truth. I won’t bother. That’s not the point. Why is the poor soul lost in contemplation, his whole demeanour ‘a lavender spray of wistful regret’? Maybe he had recently been touched by a moment of magic, a noonday that blazed into Brigadoon day? And now the moment has passed. We’ll never know. Only the great Sir Anthony van Dyck, painter of the masterwork on which this humble, humbling, copy is based, could tell us. A copy, after Sir Anthony van Dyck, of Studies of a Man’s Head NB: Just to be clear this work is painted in acrylics on a gessoed panel. The panel is made of hardboard, known in the US as Masonite.

Painting:Acrylic on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:15 W x 20.1 H x 2 D in

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