Great harlequin

This work (undoubtedly very representative and of great significance among those made during the Iron Age) brings together, in addition to the rest of its plastic and aesthetic values, great didactic values, since Gargallo integrates and summarizes in a single figure a good part of his different proposals or expressive resources, materializing them in the different and alternative representation procedure (solid-empty/recessed-relief) used for the arms and legs of the sculpture, offering any viewer a practical demonstration of how shape and volume can be created or suggested both by a procedure and by its opposite.

Gargallo prepared a plaster cast of the trunk (which was destroyed during the Second World War) and also previously cut out some parts of the limbs, the head and other complementary details in iron sheet, apparently with the intention of making a second version (perhaps mixed) of the same figure, but unfortunately he died without being able to carry it out.