Circus horse

There are 4 other bronze copies, repertoires (of the first original model).

Gargallo also made another version, a unique piece with slight but obvious differences, in terracotta.

Originally, Gargallo made two models in plaster and one in terracotta, both presenting some differences between them. Of the first plaster model, up to 4 examples were cast, as we have noted, but no more could be made because it was destroyed as a result of a fire suffered by the workshops of the Godard foundry. Later, this new and different edition began, using the second plaster model, which, as we have indicated, presents differences with respect to the first.

This is, evidently, a preliminary sketch or study for Urano, 1933, included in this catalogue, although the author would extraordinarily develop and enrich, in the definitive version of the idea, the more strictly formal aspects, here barely outlined as a scheme (even though it later maintained much of the initial compositional structure), reaching a high degree of material perfection in terms of the final resolution of a work that can be considered a summary and compendium of many others, as we will see later.

The circus horse ink drawing, ca. 1930, it could be, although the rear, diagonal and foreshortened point of view of the image differs quite a bit from the lateral view that predominated later in the sculptures, a relative antecedent of them.