Frances Spalding considers this work to be a perfect example of Fry's post-impressionist style which he determined to develop after a trip to Turkey. 'His first essays in the new style took the form of a series of large Turkish landscapes. The forms of the landscapes are outlined in black and then filled in with flat areas of unmodulated colour - a style as much indebted to the example of mosaics as to Matisse ... The rhythmic treatment of form that grows naturally out of the limitations of the medium of mosaic, gave to Fry's 1911 paintings a new expressive vigour' (F. Spalding, Roger Fry Art and Life, London, 1980, p.147)