Growing up in the Netherlands in the early 1900s, Charley Toorop had an unusual idol. It was an artist who died a nobody in 1890, just a year before Toorop was born. Vincent van Gogh. Toorop’s father was an artist who counted among his friends Paul Cézanne, Georges Braque, and Piet Mondrian; therefore, his daughter decided, she too would paint. In 1916, Toorop joined The Signal, a group that sought to root realism in bold color contrasts. She later turned to portraiture, where Van Gogh’s influence became clear. This exhibition of 60 works traces the so-called madman’s hold on Toorop’s art. —Elena Clavarino