Provenance: Jules Cavailles, J.P. Valabrega collection. Private European collection. Cavailles studied art and exhibited his work beginning in 1920s Paris. There Cavailles lived in La Ruche ("the beehive")--a vibrant artists' residential colony in Montparnasse--alongside some of the greatest of all time: Chagall, Leger, Modigliani, Brancusi, Rivera, Matisse, Derain, and many more. He soon became associated within an informal group of 8 painters known as "La Realite Petique" (f. by Maurice Brianchon, Raymond Leguelt and Roland Oudot) who were in turn influenced by fauvism (a movement popular in the first decade of the 20th c.--and the fauvre painters were considered 'wild beasts' due to their revolutionary use of intense color). Cavailles enjoyed juxtaposing the intense colors used by the fauve group with a general sentiment of joie de vivre. Here we see a young woman wearing a long-sleeved and belted pink and white dress relaxing in a bright green chair within an intensely colored dark pink and gold wall-papered room and next to her black and beige 'damier' (checker board) and above a red patterned woven rug. Lost in thought, she rests her chin on her arm and knuckles above a bright canary yellow tablecloth. Recalling certain elements popularized in some of the works of Matisse, this lady awaits a companion for tea and a game of checkers or chess in her vibrantly colored interior room. This work is listed in the archives Cavailles under number P-11-039.