There he painted colorful abstract works, even before abstraction in painting was widely accepted. The Hague art establishment, united in Pulchri Studio, once the center of the Hague School didn't like it at all, found it a disgrace. And Prikker, who was not afraid of a verbal fight, wished his colleagues all the worst. "A nice little bomb" should be thrown into this "Pulchri junk, then they would wake up from their sleep, those chaps". But when writing this Thorn Prikker was not yet the famous applied arts professor in Germany. He uttered much of these youthful anarchist expressions in his correspondence with Henri Borel (published by Joosten), a correspondence that is amongst the nicest, and strangely enough also most sensitive art historical literature we have, including Vincents letters. This work was for sale at Christies.
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