Painter with Models

This painting presents, through the refined beauty of its female bodies, a brilliant interplay of form. The female nude was also a recurrent theme in Rippl-Rónai's early paintings, but the mystery and melancholy of his black period was here replaced by a masterly handling of flat colour. Though Rippl-Rónai's interest in the nude was rather more abstract, something slightly provocative and frivolous remains, linking his work to the conceptual framework of Art Nouveau.