Greta Garbo with hat

Dating back to 1930, a date stamp, partially preserved on one of the cardboard pieces, has made it possible to establish the year of its creation more accurately, at least as regards the templates.

De la Garbo, a very popular character in the 1930s, Gargallo, interested like many of his contemporaries in the artistic and social phenomenon of cinema - we cannot forget, on the other hand, that his brother Francisco was a film director - made several drawings intended to a thematic exhibition (one of which is still preserved, although we do not know of any other that we assume would be carried out by other notable artists of the time) that was never held, but from them three surprising and, in their revolutionary conception expressive and visual, very faithful representations of the diva, the other two being titled Greta Garbo with forelock and Greta Garbo with eyelashes, both from 1930, the first in the collections of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, and the second in private collection, Brussels.