There is no doubt that the technique used by the artist in many of his Impressionist works had become a well-known technique, as Jackson Pollock was the first to use it. Like this painting, a nude female lies relaxed in contrasting colors. “The works presented by Akram Shukri were few and mostly academic in style if we exclude what he presented at the 1956 Iraqi Art Festival after returning from a UNESCO fellowship to Mexico, where he presented paintings with bright lines of pyroxylin paint”. - Dr. Khalid Al-Qassab ▪Exhibited in "Partisans of the Nude: An Arab Art Genre in an Era of Contest, 1920 - 1960" at Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, 05.Oct.2023 till 14.Jan.2024.