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Czóbel spent most of his life in Paris. Influenced by Les Fauves, he parted from the Nagybánya art school and remained to be a link between Paris and Hungarian art. In his art, elements of French art integrated with Hungarian traditions.
In the picture "Sitting Boy", Czóbel's mature style is apparent in the figure of the boy. He is wearing a vest and short trousers. Instead of contours stressing structure as in his previous pictures, he used colours to model forms and to make them plastic. He expressed surface and inner structure by applying colours. In fact, he used few colours: the white of the vest, the blue of the short trousers and different shades of brown in the background. Brown becomes an active colour in Czóbel's shades from warm gleaming brown to a brown almost black. In this very respect, Czóbel is faifhtful to Hungarian traditions with his colours: they are subdued, sensual and plastic.
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