La Femme is, in many ways, a culmination of Wald’s ideological, erotic, abstract and spiritual exploration of the human body. It represented the first of a trio of abstract sculptures on the themes of Sex, Hunger and Conquest. According to the artist, these were the three driving forces of humankind. 

Wald exploited once again the male-female ambiguity in this work. The elongated female figure, abstracted to a bare minimum of contours, represents an inverted view of the shape of a phallus, the male and female having fused into one being. It is almost identical to Princess X (1916) by Romanian-born French sculptor Constantin Branscusi (1876-1957).