Sokatz Woman Embroidering

After the completion of his painting Erzsébet Báthory Csók reached a period of stylistic crisis. He experimented with religious symbolic compositions and popular genre pictures. He was fascinated by the colourful national costumes worn by the Southern Slav population near his native land and around 1900 he painted mainly peasant girls in richly embroidered blouses. To overcome this crisis in his art, Csók made significant changes in his life. He married and returned to Paris, where he stayed from 1903 to 1911 without severing his connections with Hungary.