This incredibly imaginative cycle of pictures mainly depicts beautiful women in very different settings.
It also seems to be a kind of typology of different female protagonists with different characters.
The atmosphere in the paintings seems enraptured and dreamlike – as if they were the artist’s longed-for visions of the feminine in itself.
Some of the women are in the tradition of the reclining Venus, the bathers and the thinking person, others appear as muses in the artist’s studio – some of them are very self-confident young women who gaze boldly at the viewer.
The sophisticated design of the interiors with the inclusion of semi-abstract, geometric elements and oversized depictions of animals is very striking.