• By Sadie
    Sep 14, 2009 6:30 PM 1,536
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    R.I.P. Richard Merkin

    Richard Merkin, artist, illustrator and "professional dandy," has died at 70. Eulogized Tom Wolfe, "He was the greatest of that breed, the Artist Dandy...Like Dali, he had one of the few remaining Great Mustaches in the art world." [NYT]


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