This screen is a unique work within the artistic production of Frederic Marès about which we do not have much information. We know that it was kept in the workshop of his home on Carrer de Mallorca until the 1940s, and despite the unknown date of execution, it has been attributed to him around 1934.

Marès presented a "Retablo (madera y cristal)" in the decorative art section of the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Madrid in May and June 1934. Despite the peculiar name, it almost certainly refers to the work discussed.

The marine theme and the female figure naked or in a bathing suit can be related to the production of other contemporary artists who correspond to the third decade of the 20th century, such as Josep Obiols, Francesc d'A. Galí, Manuel Humbert, Rafael Solanic, Santiago Marco..., who, under different artistic disciplines, cultivated the same theme, even after the Civil War.

The formal and iconographic characteristics make it possible to place the piece under a dual aesthetic and iconographic path: the more typical Mediterranean Noucentism - of the agave and the boat - and the more international Art Deco, present in the very conception of the work and in the selection of materials - lacquered wood and acid-etched glass - which make up a combination of great chromatic contrast: white in the middle of shiny black.