Bather (head raised)

There is also another terracotta specimen, repertoire, made by Gargallo himself, which was from the French Art Institute of Philadelphia and currently belongs to the Musée du Petit-Palais, Genève.

The author previously modeled another version of the bather, which differs in the position of the head and is slightly larger. This is the Bather (lowered head), 1924, also cataloged here.

It is probably (in its two versions) the work by Gargallo in which his Noucentista inclinations are most clearly shown, and perhaps also the one that he represents archetypically, due to the volumetric conception, the proportions, the general composition of the figure, some of the more defined plastic and aesthetic ideals of Mediterraneanism, which has a lot to do with a good part of the postulates of the Catalan cultural trend mentioned above.