Particularly during the years following his wartime experiences, Richard Müller generated a number of graphic works in which he juxtaposed, with astonishing wit, naked female beauties and exotic animals. Thus is the case with this large-scale drawing from 1915, which he himself titled An enquiry. In Müller‘s vocabulary of motifs, the coati (hog-nosed coon) typically stands for a silent observer who, despite his phallus-like nose, has not been endowed with a great libido. Nevertheless, in this case his curious gaze and erect tail cannot deny a certain lasciviousness. The naked beauty, on the other hand, hides her face – as in nearly all similar compositions – with an oversize fan here. It is not necessarily a kittenish woman standing behind the fan, but perhaps rather a desire for an incognito or depersonalized vamp. The garters are a remnant of erotic photography, which was still widespread, and testify to the artist‘s propensity towards sexually-ambiguous anecdotes. Müller enjoyed great success with these erotic, albeit stylistically-alienated works. His son, Adrian Lukas, sold graphic reproductions as an art dealer all over Europe and abroad.