It's the first in a series of four variations, and in the painting two people can be seen kissing passionately with their faces covered in a white cloth hiding their identities.
[3] He said that his works from this time were "the result of a systematic search for an overwhelming poetic effect through the arrangement of objects borrowed from reality, which would give the real world from which those objects had been borrowed an overwhelming poetic meaning by a natural process of exchange" [4] There have been several interpretations of this work, but many people have claimed that covering faces with cloth comes from a memory of Magritte.
Some have speculated that the trauma of his mother's suicide inspired a series of works in which he obscured his subjects’ faces, but there's no evidence of this being true.
Fashion designer David Delfín [es] has taken this artwork as inspiration for one of his most controversial collections, featuring models with their heads covered by hoods and slipknots around their necks.
[7] In Broken Embraces, the protagonist, played by Penélope Cruz, kisses her husband under the bedsheets, creating a similar image to the painting.