The painting depicts a woman who appears to either pass out or feel pleasure close to orgasm. Her richly decorated bust seems to blend into the background colors and shapes. The theme here is frivolity, overconsumption as the only possible act of joy and happiness.

The Janus (double skull) which here represents the versatility of the character locked in his materialistic desire, is painted in a rough, expressionist way, and seems with his crude hands to either suffocate the woman, or caress her, or perhaps both…It symbolizes the very ambivalent power of money, of happiness reduced to desire and of desire reduced to consumption of trivialities, a kind of loss of soul and drowning in a jumble of colors that have no real meaning.

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