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Imre Szobotka was one of the firs Hungarian Cubists. From 1911 to 1913 he studied in Paris at the Académie "La Palette", under Metzinger and H. le Fauconnier. In 1913 his works were exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants side by side with the work of the theoreticians of Cubism, A. Gleizes, Dunoyer de Segonzac and Chagall. Even Guillaume Apollinaire took note of his works. In the First World War he was interned at the small village of Saint Brieuc in Brittany.
He returned to Hungary a decade later with the new, modern artistic approach. It was at that time that he painted the "Nude Woman". Everything he had adopted and reshaped from the new style was summed up in this painting. Critics praised the unusual position of the nude, and the fine tones of mauve, brown, blue and yellow. The colour perspectives and the lighting brought unity to the broken forms so typical of Cubism.
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