"This picture with nose, ears, belly, etc. positioned like the stones of a dolmen is a great success regarding composition, imagination and strong, simple strangeness [...]"

Edward James - letter to Magritte

"This picture gave me the opportunity, in my turn, to ask the public questions: I would ask visitors whether they could tell me why I had given the figure two noses."

René Magritte

The idea of a female nude assembled from disconnected parts suggests a tribute to Picasso.