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"... Rippl was the only artist who brought fresh blood to Hungarian painting and he was the Hungarian Cézanne and Gaugain and what one might one call an impressionist," write Lajos Fülep in his study on art in 1910. It is true that Rippl-Rónai's art represented a decorative style similar to that of the French, and other than the anacronistic academism, the prevailing style of the time. His style was richer in content and more modern than the Nagybánya post-impressionism: Rippl-Rónai represented modern painting in the very sense of the word.
"Interior" was painted in 1901 after his return from Paris when he had settled down in Kaposvár. He painted series of interiors of sleepy yet friendly middle-class homes with light brushwork ("Christmas", 1903, "When One Relies on one's Memories", 1904, "Small Interior in Kaposvár"). These interiors with mostly biedermeier furniture fascinate the spectator with an atmosphere of intimacy and with Rippl's particularly fresh colours.
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