“The essential thing is to elongate the women and especially to make them slim. After that it just remains to enlarge their jewels. They are ravished.”

Source: Dossier pédagogique, Service culturel, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Mars 2011

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Dutch painter 1877–1968

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“The essential thing is to elongate the women and especially to make them slim. After that it just remains to enlarge their jewels. They are ravished.”

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