Deux têtes is a disarmingly simple image, and a remarkably adventurous work for a young artist. It reflects or pre-figures many of the artistic currents of the early decades of the Modernist era. Its humor is almost Dada-like. The smooth abstractly human shapes are not unlike the heads of de Chirico's mannequins. Its austerity recalls the Purism of painting in Paris during the mid-1920s and the minimalistic lyrical expression of Brancusi. It resembles the biomorphic forms which populate Arps paintings and reliefs, and anticipates this artist's first sculptures in the round, which were executed several years later. The image of two heads, one large and one small, appears again in the painting The Couple from 1931. Deux tête is visible in a studio photograph of 1937, adjacent to some of the Surrealist objects Seligmann created around that time; it seems entirely in place with the later works. Seligmann kept this work for the remainder of his life, as if they were the egg-like beginnings from which the complexity of later works emerged.