“I was done justice and I appreciated it.”

— Herman Kruyder

translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018

(version in original Dutch / origineel citaat van Herman Kruyder uit zijn brief, in het Nederlands:) ** Aan mij is recht gedaan, ik vond het fijn.

short quote of Kruyder, in his letter to P.A. Regnault in Surabaya, April-May 1932; as recorded in Regnault's memoirs

Kruyder's response after a number of positive reactions om his paintings, from other Dutch painters and art-critics like nl:Albert Plasschaert
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