“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)”