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View source →Pregnant Woman
Pablo Picasso, 1950
Technical Details
Medium
Plaster with metal armature, wood, ceramic vessel, and pottery jars
Dimensions
110 × 22 × 32 cm
Style
Figurative / Sculpture
Decade
1950s
About This Work
Pregnant Woman is an assemblage built from plaster, wire, wood, a ceramic vessel, and pottery jars. The empty ceramic components visibly form the breasts and distended abdomen, while wire provides structural support and joins the parts. The work makes its construction legible, turning ordinary vessels and sculptural armature into a figure of compressed physical presence.
MoMA dates this work to Vallauris, 1950, and records it as object 376.2003, acquired through gifts of Louise Reinhardt Smith and Jacqueline Picasso. Conservation notes describe the wire support, ceramic vessels, and wooden elements revealed by x-ray examination. The museum’s gallery label records Françoise Gilot’s interpretation of the work as a possible response to her refusal to have a third child; it is presented here as her attributed reading rather than settled fact.
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Valuation & Provenance
2026 Estimated Value
Priceless / Not for sale
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Last Known Sale
No public auction record — held in permanent museum collection
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