balloons

Doing these easy, romantic, saccharine drawings came easy to Tony. These are prints: the signature is also in ink which he would never do. These little drawings kept him afloat in hard times selling them for a couple of dollars and selling enough to pay the rent. He would go from bar to bar in the red light district in Antwerp, Paris, Amsterdam... His folder would be filled with real drawings and these prints and he would hope that the real good work could find a loving home. People loved these sweet nothings, yet good drawings as he himself considered them. Later, as a mature painter, often when he did something too easy he would change it going from the slick to the rough and real feelings.