Little maternity

There are also three other terracotta specimens, listed, one of them in the Museu de Figueras, and another in the Fundació Espona, Barcelona.

Undoubtedly related, by concept, composition and even dimensions, with Maternity, 1927 (although the sense of meditation and intimate mother-child communication is even greater in this one, to which perhaps the elimination of the cloths contributes) and, of course, With the background drawn from it, it seems that for the creation of this work - and perhaps, consequently, for that of its predecessors - Gargallo was directly inspired by the image, so close and dear, of his wife Magali and his daughter Pierrette .