Allen Jones is one of a group of artists who attended the Royal College of Art in the late 1950s and early 1960s who became associated with Pop art. He has consistently represented the female figure in highly sexualised poses. Often his female figures are dressed, as we see here, in PVC or rubber clothing and wear exaggeratedly high stiletto-heel shoes. Jones was inspired by popular illustration of the 1940s and 1950s, especially those with a sexual content, such as airbrushed pictures of pin-up girls. The woman shown here is represented as an object, an embodiment of conventional male erotic fantasy.
![The Barbaric Dance (Before Salomé and Hérod) [La danse barbare (devant Salomé et Hérode)], Пабло Пикассо, 1905, издание 1913](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/50a2abdc-52b3-49f7-af3f-2ef384c8f1d0/full/!2400,2400/0/default.jpg)