Maternity
1956
14 x 7 x 9 in. (35.6 x 17.8 x 22.9 cm)
Giacomo Manzù
Italian
(1908 - 1991)
Object Type:
Sculpture
Medium and Support:
Bronze
Credit Line:
R. T. Miller Fund
Accession Number:
1957.32
Location: Not currently on view
The remarkable bond between a mother and her child begins with gestation and continues after birth through touch. Our first lessons on how to interact with our world and the people around us begin in our mother’s arms. Giacomo Manzù captured this intensely physical relationship in a series of sculptures of women with their children in various states of embrace and caress. This sculpture was never put into production, and the chalky remains of the casting process remain on its surface.
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]