Maternity

There are also four terracotta examples, one of them in the Birthplace of Pablo Gargallo, Maella; another in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona; and another in the Patio Herreriano Museum (repository of the Contemporary Art Collection), Valladolid.

Motherhood is a theme that Gargallo would deal with repeatedly throughout his career, although he always dedicated works of small size and markedly intimate nature to it. Regarding sculptural pieces (since he also made some drawings, mainly notes, on this matter), in addition to the Virgin [with Child], ca. 1894, which opens this catalog (and the one made in 1906-11 for the large cross at the main entrance of the Hospital de la Santa Cruz y San Pablo, in Barcelona, ​​which disappeared in 1936) and the two bas-reliefs in embossed copper plate, both from 1916 (the one titled Little Maternity is also cataloged here), he made this emblematic exhibition of his very personal technique of inverted volumes, truly exceptional, and two representations of classicist tendency and small size in the years 1927 and 1931, both belonging to the collections of the Pablo Gargallo Museum.

To his own mother he dedicated a plaster bust (of which a bronze example is preserved today in the Birthplace of Maella) and a small full-length marble figure, both works made from memory in 1926, a few months after the death of Petra Catalán, as well as several excellent and very expressive drawings.