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Chase, the eclectic collector.(Current and coming)

From: The Magazine Antiques  |  Date: 11/1/2004  |  Author: Ledes, Allison Eckardt

William Merritt Chase was one of the most versatile and intriguing American artists working around the turn of the twentieth century. Always a fierce individualist with a flair for the exotic, his preferred painting method called for bypassing preliminary drawings and oil sketches in favor of the au premier coup technique. He also had a passion for collecting in his studio just the right objects both to use as props in his paintings and to create a striking ambiance for his many ...

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