Exhibited: Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, 1947, cat. no. 33. Exhibited: “Elise Johansens samling”, Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen, 1954–1955, cat. no. 14. Provenance: Mrs Elise Johansen, Copenhagen. Provenance: “Cobra - 50 år 1948–1998”, Kunsthallen Kunstauktioner, auction 496, Copenhagen, 1998, cat. no. 17. Provenance: Private collection, Denmark. Acquired at the above auction.

“After the war another stay in France was to have vital importance for Ejler Bille's development. In 1947 - together, incidentally, with Egill Jacobsen - he spent some months at Cagnes on the French Riviera, and here, he reached a new climax. This picture, in which the mask theme and the ornamental forms are fully integrated, so that one cannot tell where the one begins and the other ends, is painted with the same ease and assurance as the Paris pictures of nearly ten years earlier. The colour, influenced by the Mediterranean light, has acquired a softness of tone that is new in Bille, but at the same time is more richly orchestrated than ever. The composition is based on a large diagonal movement, and the mask figure, which is female in charater, appears to be borne along by a gentle breeze, as she regard us with warm, impersonal smile of a goddess” in Poul Vad: “Ejler Bille”, Munksgaard, Copenhagen, 1961, pp. 33–34.