Seated Woman
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A large female figure, nude, seated on a stool or low chair, fills most of the composition. She is outlined in thick white paint against a black background, with the body painted in raw umber and ochre brown. The face is kept simple with two dark eyes, a straight nose, a line for the mouth. The breasts and belly are drawn with curved white lines. Her hands rest in her lap. To her left, a tall object — possibly a lamp or a standing form — is sketched in white lines against the black ground, with a small red rectangle near its top. The white outlining gives the figure a glowing, almost stained-glass quality against the dark background. This is from 1943, the year Adler moved from Scotland to London, where he shared a house with the painters Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde.