PABLO GARGALLO CATALÁN (Maella, Zaragoza, 1881 - Reus, Tarragona, 1934). "Maternity", 1916 Relief in bronze, copy XIV/XXXV. Signed, dated and justifie

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  PABLO GARGALLO CATALÁN (Maella, Zaragoza, 1881 - Reus, Tarragona, 1934). "Maternity", 1916 Relief in bronze, copy XIV/XXXV. Signed, dated and justified. Work published in "Pablo Gargallo. Catalogoue raisonné, Pierrette Gargallo-Anguera, Ed. Les Editions de l'Amateur, 1998, Paris. Other copies of this same print run have been exhibited in: - "Gargallo", Galerías Laietanas, Barcelona, October 1916, - Gargallo", Wilhelm Lehmbrück Museum, Duisbrug, November-December 1966. - Gargallo", Musée Rodin, Paris, April-June 1970. - Gargallo", Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid, October-December 1971. - Gargallo", Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, December 1971-January 1972. - Centenaire P. Gargallo. 1881-1981", Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Fudaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon and Palacio de Cristal, Madrid, 1980-1982. - Gargallo. Pierres, terres et bronzes. 1900-1394", Galerie Marwan Hoss, Paris, November 1993-January 1994. - Pablo Gargallo", Marlborough Gallery, Madrid, January-February 1994. - Pablo Gargallo", Association Campredon, Art et Culture, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, July-October 1995. Measurements: 13 x 8.5 cm; 34 x 26 cm (frame). Pablo Gargallo trained in Barcelona, at the School of Fine Arts and as a disciple of Eusebi Arnau, and was related to the artists of "Els Quatre Gats", which is why his first works were influenced by modernism. In 1903 he obtained a grant that enabled him to travel to Paris to complete his studies. His stay in the French capital was brief, but from then until 1923, when he settled permanently in Paris, he travelled there frequently. In Paris he encountered the aesthetic formulations of Cubism, assimilated its expressive systems and sought the schematism and essentiality of figures and objects in an attempt to find the authentic three-dimensional expression of the Cubist postulates. Around this time he began to use metallic materials such as sheet metal, copper and iron. Around 1911-12 he produced his first masks, highly simplified pieces made from cut-out sheet metal and linked to the Cubist aesthetic. Using sheet metal, Gargallo began to suggest volumes and to exalt voids through the penetration of light into interiors. In 1920 he was appointed professor of sculpture at the Escuela Técnica de Oficios Artísticos de la Mancomunidad de Cataluña, a post from which he was removed in 1923 for political reasons. It was then that Gargallo settled permanently in Paris with his wife and daughter. Gargallo is currently represented in the museum that bears his name in Zaragoza, the MoMA in New York, MACBA in Barcelona, the Museum of Modern Art in Paris and the Reina Sofía in Madrid, among many others.
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