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While Csók did not follow closely the trends of modern art then prevailing in France, he did not quite withdraw from the influence of the endeavours in art manifest in the first decades of the century. He was particularly attracted by the brightness and decorative effect characteristic of the Fauve trend. Brilliantly coloured surfaces gained an increasing emphasis in his pictures even at the expense of space. This development in his work reached its peak in his Painted Tulip Chest (1910), a picture which fitted perfectly into one of the then prevailing stylised decorative trends of French painting, although the choice of its subject was prompted by emphatically Hungarian national motives.
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