Léger is considered one of the great Modernist European artists of the 20th century. He initially associated himself with Pablo Picasso’s and Georges Braque’s Cubist movement, but in time was closely associated with Robert Delaunay, Francis Picabia and Alexander Calder.   From 1914 until the end of World War II, Léger’s work combined abstraction and representation, often depicting individual figures or groups of figures as machine-like assemblages of cylindrical and rectilinear forms. After World War II, Léger entered a period in which his work celebrated the working class and popular life through figural compositions that were less mechanical and more organic. As a result of the extensive rebuilding campaign that took place throughout Europe after the war, Léger, like many other European masters, was active in creating monumental public art works, of which Femmes au Perroquet is an example.   The composition shows an Edenic scene of women in nature. The two structural elements in the lower right, while suggesting a bench on which a figure is sitting, resemble the building girders found in other works by Léger, suggesting that the artist may be evoking a theme of building a new paradise.