The dancer is a loose, fluid oil from 1982 on paper with oil pastels. The subtitle is 'of klaar of niet', the enigmatic either ready or not. I remember that sometimes Tony Mafia would do almost monochromatic paintings: white on white, blues on blues. This is not one of those drawings; yet he was looking for something here: lightheartedness, freedom, beauty, maybe also a simpler life. It must have been a fast drawing of a dancing harlequin, the type of work some people considered unfinished. The vet loves this drawing hanging in his living room.
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