In the 1970s Rufino Tamayo underwent his period of greatest productivity and experimentation in the printmaking field. He first visited the Polígrafa workshop in Barcelona in 1973, returning several times over the next decade. Prints created there, such as Woman in White, are identified as etchings but in fact use a mixture of printing processes to explore different textures.

This print highlights the material quality of the ink rather than color in depicting the female figure, as well as the space around her, demonstrating Tamayo’s skillful manipulation of the medium.