Reclining Madonna and Child

In THE ART OF STEFFEN THOMAS, art historian Anthony F. Janson writes:

Thomas idealized women] “…are allied to the classical tradition stretching back to ancient Greece, without being specifically classical in appearance. On the contrary, they have a rounded softness suggestive of Matisse, but with an abstractness that arose from Thomas’s youthful Cubist experiments…In their many guises they express an ideal not simply of femininity but of humanity as a whole.”