In his young age, Baltasar Lobo enters the sculptor Ramón Núñez’s studio, in Valladolid (Spain) and becomes his apprentice. There, he works on wooden sculptures made for processions. Later on, he continues his studies at the Fine Arts school in Madrid, but soon leaves the school he considers to be as a « cemetery ». At that time, he decides to learn how to carve wood and marble, attending evening classes. He discovers the works of Picasso, Dali, Miró and Gargallo.

In 1939, Lobo runs away from Spain after most of his sculpures had been destroyed by the bombardments. When arriving to Paris, he sleeps under the bridges and in the Saint Lazare station. He decides to visit Picasso, and to show him his drawings. From then, he benefits his generous help and support. He settles in a studio which Naum Gabo just left and becomes a friend of Henri Laurens.

His figurative style gets simpler, as Brancusi, Arp or Moore sculptures. He always has been interessed by the subjet of maternity, all along his carreer. His drawings and his sculptures reflect the tenderness expressed by mothers playing with their child.

Among his main projects, he conceived a Monument in the Memory of Spanish Soldiers dead for Freedom, executed in 1948 in Annecy, and in 1953 the famous bronze sculpture Maternity for the University of Caracas from which the scuplture we present is the study.