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After the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic Uitz began to paint the figure of the sleeping woman lying on a red rug and with a cover over her. Changes in his life explain why he started to paint models who had a cover on them which returns in series of copper engravings during the first year of his emigration in Vienna. "Reclining Woman" is a forerunner of works of 1920, and was probably the last picture of his artistic period in Hungary. It is the best known of Uitz' oil paintings. The picture demonstrates clearly with the subject matter recalling renaissance Venus portrayals, with the way light is applied to model plasticity and with its composition that the spirit of tradition survived in the artist while he was experimenting with various isms.
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