"It is always the same: a struggle between making love and working. Together, that is almost impossible - at least for me; struggle between being a woman and creating art. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)"
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(original Dutch: citaat van Charley Toorop's brief, in het Nederlands:) Het is altijd weer dat: strijd tusschen vrijen en werken. Samen gaat haast niet – bij mij tenminste; strijd tussen vrouw zijn en scheppende werken. — In a letter to her friend, the poet Henny Marsman, c. Summer of 1924, undated; KB The Hague. — In this letter Charley broke the affair with Marsman
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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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