Little voluptuousness kneeling

There are also two other terracotta specimens, made by Gargallo himself and listed, one of which belongs to the Montserrat Museum.

In the first years of his professional independence, starting in 1906, Gargallo developed the commissions he received, especially from the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, and at the same time carried out a series of more personal works with which he defined and consolidated the unmistakable style that will soon characterize all of his work, surprisingly refined and essential in pieces as early as this one, a very representative example of a contained and resounding sensuality, whose extraordinary modernity is reaffirmed with the evident primitive and classicist connotations that identify the sculptor's plastic interests and differentiate and its unique artistic language.
This figure must have greatly interested its author, since a year later he would make, without completely completing it, the Voluptuosity, 1908, a larger marble version, as well as the Bent Head of a Woman, 1908, an enlargement of the head of the work. original, of which it preserves all its mysterious and sensual seclusion, in the initial terracotta and in the bronzes cast from it.