Stylistically it belongs to the classical movement immediately after the First World War, also known as 'the return to order'. The anonymous young model is not a nymph from a fantasy, but is emphatically a 'twenties girl, cheeky and stylish. She looks modestly past the viewer; her belt has fallen to reveal a nicely shaped tit and she looks rather carefree. The still life in the foreground is a juxtaposition of Cézanne in the apple and art deco in the jazzy coloured parrot statue. But this in itself is not deco brashness: there is a clever similarity between the still life and the patterned, floral headgear.
Gertler grew up in the impoverished East End of London. Handsome and a gifted mimic, he was also angry, selfish and neurotic. He did not end up in a style or mode that satisfied him, yet his work is admired today: it is finer in the flesh - the operative word here - than in reproduction. Gertler moved among the modernist intelligentsia of London.
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