Like Lê Phổ, Vu Cao Dam was a Vietnamese artist trained at the École des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine who painted delicate floral and nature subjects on silk, blending Eastern and Western aesthetics with the same refined, luminous quality seen in this poppy composition.

Foujita similarly worked at the intersection of Eastern and Western artistic traditions, producing delicate works featuring flowers and natural imagery with a refined surface quality and intimate scale that resonates with the silk medium and floral subject of this work.