Ugo Guidi, Pregnant woman (1957)
Indian ink, 35,2x25,3 cm
Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe
It is one of the first works by Guidi describing the theme of motherhood: if in realizations such as the
Adolescent or the
Sat figure there were only references, but now, in this
Pregnant woman, the theme becomes clear.
This is a work drawn in the Fifties, so in a period in which drawings by Guidi were not independent but remember the studies of a sculptor.
The woman is represented in a realistic way, but the head is not drawn, because Ugo Guidi wants the observer to concentrate on the main details such as the stomach (which is made more evident thanks to two little arches, one over and one under the navel), the breast and the pubis, which is covered by the hands of the protagonist, even though the waist is wrapped in a veil, which has a drapery drawn with great accuracy.