In 1917 Picasso traveled to Rome to design sets and costumes for Sergei Diaghilev’s famed Ballets Russes. Deeply impressed by the ancient and Renaissance art of that city, he began painting monumental figures inspired by antiquity. His new classical style was influenced by the finely modeled odalisques of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and the late, oddly proportioned female nudes of Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Mother and Child was also inspired by Picasso’s own life. Just three years earlier he had married Russian dancer Olga Khokhlova, and in 1921 their son Paolo was born. Between 1921 and 1923 he produced at least twelve works on the subject of mothers and children, returning to a theme that he had explored during his Blue Period.
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/109275/mother-and-child
More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_Picasso_artworks
Thank you for including the information along with the piece itself. Despite reading a couple books about Picasso, I still feel under-educated about his life and work.
You're welcome, I always appreciate learning a little about the art I experience too, and Picasso was a busy dude.