"There is too much method, too much cliché in the work. One knows nowadays in advance what one will see in a portrait of Charley Toorop. The wide-eyed gaze; the forced colors in the face; the painting of the flesh like carved wood and polychromed; the merciless contour of the hair against the background; the cloddy-like enlargements and intensifications, they don't surprise for long and don't convince us anymore. translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)"
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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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