Charley Toorop

From the series Women of the Rijksmuseum

Host Cathelijne Blok and curator Ludo van Halen take a deep dive in this recently acquired self-portrait by Charly Toorop. She is 42 here, and at the peak of her career. In her seventeen self-portraits you can see her grow from a young girl to an elderly woman.

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