"1. Never knock on doors, or even worse - to open closed doors, 2. always on time for dinner, 3. Do not mess up, 4. never unwashed at the table. Everything else was allowed. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)"
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(original Dutch: citaat van Jo Boer, in het Nederlands:) 1. Nooit op deuren kloppen of nog erger gesloten deuren open doen, 2. altijd op tijd aan tafel, 3. Geen rommel maken, 4 nooit ongewassen aan tafel komen. Verder mocht alles. — memory of Jo Boer, student of Charley in the Amsterdam years, recorded by N. Brederoo in Charley Toorop, in A. Fleischer, A. Valeton (ed.), 1994, pp. 22-25
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Charley Toorop
Charley Toorop (Katwijk, 24 March, 1891 - Bergen, 5 November, 1955) was a Dutch painter famous for her many characteristic portraits and self-portraits with wide-open eyes. She was the daughter of painter Jan Toorop and mother of the painter Edgar Fernhout.
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