This cubist-style painting features a woman seated in a high-backed, ornate chair, rendered with sharp geometric planes and abstract facial features. Her face is segmented into contrasting light and dark sections, with one eye presented in profile and the other in a frontal view. She wears a striped bodice and her figure is broken into a complex arrangement of triangles and polygons, creating a fragmented, multi-dimensional appearance.
The figure is centered within an outdoor setting, framed by stylized, arching vines and leaves that reach inward from the sides and top of the frame. The background includes hints of a landscape with a flat, reddish-brown ground and a bright, yellow-toned sky featuring a geometric diamond shape. The composition is highly structured, emphasizing the interplay between the rigid, architectural lines of the chair and the organic, sweeping curves of the surrounding foliage.
The color palette is bold and deliberate, utilizing intense blocks of red, black, white, and ochre, balanced by softer washes of blue and green. The light is flat and theatrical, highlighting the decorative patterns within the woman's clothing and the chair's upholstery rather than natural volume. The overall mood is serious and contemplative, characterized by the artist's signature approach of deconstructing form to offer a simultaneous view of various perspectives.