The yellow of the dress is retained in the lithograph, but the background has been erased and instead there stands behind the chair a pinto calçudo (a baby chick with feathers covering its legs). The image carries a sexual undertone since ‘pinto’ is a Portuguese slang term for male genitalia. In this context, ‘Apres la Fête’ implies a post-coital moment; her sexual partner has departed and the woman is left to her thoughts. ‘La fête’ might be intercourse itself, and another pastel of that title made in 2003 depicts a woman playing the accordion or squeeze box, which musical instrument—owing to its rhythmic extensions and contractions—is a colloquial visual metaphor for sex. Mouth Organ is closely related to a larger pastel of the same year, Playing the Harmonica, in which the woman is depicted in the same attitude. In addition to the red curtain, her surroundings are further populated by two rabbit-headed figures, an open bottle of red wine and a half-full tumbler beside her raised foot. It seems plausible that Rego also invested the playing of a mouth organ with sexual connotations.