Anyone buying a painting wants a good work by the painter in question. It goes without saying that the work *Still Life with Eggs and Red Can* is a very good work. Such a good work becomes even more interesting when the painter's personal touch can be found in the painting. With Henk Helmantel, that personal touch is always present in the objects he paints. Only when he has a personal connection with an object does it potentially become a candidate for painting. The red savings tin is such an object, from his own collection. The locks are still on it. Henk's eye also fell on the small barrel he bought from an antique dealer. Both objects appear in various works and even characterize Helmantel.

Not the bantam chicken eggs, but the stone saucepan represents the true connection to the painter in this work. It comes from Henk's grandmother. As a child, it frequently stood on the table, and Henk has looked at it and eaten from it his entire life. Whoever owns this work can truly say that they are sitting at Helmantel's table.