The White and the Black

[1][2] The picture is from the early period of the artist and is among her most famous paintings.

[1] The picture is owned by the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga.

[2] It shows two women – a black girl in the foreground and white woman on a sofa, wearing a tunic and holding a fan in her right hand.

The woman on the couch is Biruta Ozolina, wife of the Italian ambassador to Thailand, Amadori.

The picture presents a visual reality and the realistic forms of representation that followed Cubism and the abstract experiments of the early 20th century.