Lee Man Fong

Acquired directly from the artist

The painting is in good condition and the board is free from warps or cracks. Examination under ultraviolet light reveals some specks and spots of retouching along the lower edges, on the rocks on the foreground, on the upper right (background), on the mane and tail of the stallion and the ear and head of the mare. These are visible only under UV light. The paint layers are intact.
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"Even the memory of special scenes of beauty fades away. That is why God created artists... He gave them the power to capture precious moments and glorious memories and lock them in time and place for evermore. He have them the power to preserve pieces of history and vignettes of life and, thus, give man the treasured heritage of bridging the present with the past. And the future. With some artists, not all, God went further. He gave them the power to put a part of themselves in their paintings...[which] seem to take a life of their own... These are paintings that bear the soulmark of the artist. I believe the paintings of artist Lee Man Fong have these special qualities."

CHARLES GOULD, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE HEARST FOUNDATION AND A MEMBER OF THE BOARDS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO FINE ARTS MUSEUM, THE UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANSCISCO AND ST MARY'S COLLEGE, CITED IN  HO KUNG-SHANG, OIL PAINTINGS OF LEE MAN FONG, ART BOOK CO., LTD., TAIWAN, 1984, P. 6.