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The picture is a part of contemporary attitude to life and art trends. It represent true confessions of an artist who said in 1927, "evolving art has more to do with a locomotive than Raphael". Vaszary was fascinated by landscape and cities which had changed as a result of the technical revolution of the 1920s. The picture is divided into two parts. Through a large window without curtains, one can see a street in a city lit by neon signs, lines of cars and queues of people. A crop-haired female nude with a boyish figure, the ideal beauty of the age, is lying in the foreground of the room in front of the window. The picture is divided into sections by horizontal and vertical contours of objects and by diagonal beams of reflectors which light the room, and illuminate and highlight the female nude. The black cover under the nude serves the same purpose: this is a well-known method of the artist to highlight a figure with plasticity against a plain decorative background. Vaszary included lessons of purism and constructivism into the composition without giving up his links to nature.
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