Woman's tilted head

The original terracotta (enlargement of the head of Little Kneeling Voluptuosity, 1907, an example of the constant desire for improvement, expansion, and diversification of his plastic achievements that characterizes Gargallo's entire professional career, which reconsidered, rethought, reworked certain previous works, in everything or in part) suffered some superficial fractures during firing, which have naturally been faithfully reproduced in the bronze casting process.

Few female representations, perhaps none, among those made by Gargallo denote such a high degree of sensuality and serene placidity, perhaps of spiritualized hedonism, as this suggestive head, which almost exceeds in dimensions the total dimensions of that small figure from which it conceptually and iconographically and that, despite being a decontextualized fragment, manages to transmit to us the disturbing sensations that we easily imagine emanating from the entire and necessarily naked body, surely chaste but not nubile, of the woman to whom it belongs. Perhaps that is why Gargallo, always dissatisfied with his achievements, became convinced that the head was even more complete than the entire body, and left completely unfinished (perhaps because it was not necessary) both the first attempt, in terracotta, of the matrix figure and the subsequent marble extension of it, both sculptures of exceptional quality.