Composed with free and sensuous curves, this work celebrates the serene physicality of Picasso’s young companion of the period, Marie-Thérèse Walter. Though never a member of the movement, the painter had been praised by the Surrealists from the outset and allowed them to show his works in their exhibitions. Particularly close links were established in the early 1930s, as Picasso’s energetic productivity coincided with the Surrealists' liberation from sexual convention.