This early painting by Germaine Lacaze depicts six Parisians, two women and four men, standing in the open air on the rear platform of a typical 1930s bus, in front of a ticket conductor, painted from behind on the right.

Three passenger glances catch our attention : the livid one of the man with the felt hat hanging on the rail, the short-sighted one of the man with the cap behind his glasses and the one given to the conductor by the woman with the feathered hat.

A caricatured vision of men and women, all wearing hats and cramped in their clothes, stuck in a bus on which the artist does not board.

A pessimistic and mocking account of the Paris that surrounds her by a young artist who in 1932 confirmed her path by beginning several years of studies with Othon Friesz at the Grande Chaumière after studying at the Beaux-Arts in Lucien Simon’s studio.