![Charley Toorop - Self-Portrait [1953-54]](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5591/14671001839_0de5974862_o.jpg)
Charley Toorop (Katwijk, March 24, 1891 – Bergen, November 5, 1955) was a Dutch painter and lithographer. Her full name was Annie Caroline Pontifex Fernhout-Toorop. In 1926 Charley Toorop went to live in Amsterdam, where her painting became influenced by film. Frontally depicted figures stand isolated from each other, as if lit by lamps at a movie set. Her still life show kinship to the synthetic cubism of Juan Gris. From the 1930s onwards, she painted many female figures, as well as nudes and self-portraits in a powerful, realistic style. Her works are in many public collections, notably in the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo.
[Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands - Oil on canvas]