By Irvan Neckerman

The blacks strewn negligently over the form give it an informal look,

different from those forms that are studiedly ornamental and almost

forbidding in the courtly, mannered preciseness. However, Mr.

Neckerman’s construction may make you knit your brows now and then.

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