Gypsy torso

Originally, it was a full-length figure, carved from a live model. But Gargallo had difficulties with the material, so he made a plaster cast of said figure, retouching details and transforming it into a torso, and kept the stone intact.
Of that plaster model, Gargallo made four copies in terracotta, repertoires, and later five copies in bronze, repertoires (except the fifth, numbered V/VII), which have a prolonged support.
There is also an edition, of 7 numbered copies (unfinished) and 3 numbered artist's proofs (unfinished), of another version without prolonged support.
Years later, Gargallo himself decided to transform the stone figure that he kept complete into a torso, for which he removed parts of the head, arms and legs, leaving the sculpture in a state similar to the terracotta or bronze specimens.
Thanks to the data observable on the base of the bronze specimen that belongs to the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, in Barcelona, ​​we have been able to specify the exact date of this work, which had been considered to be 1924.

Perhaps it is the most beautiful and astonishingly perfect, in its abstraction and synthesis, of the nudes made by Gargallo, both male and female. His interest and predilection for this work, whose modern classicist conception reaffirms the personal and new as well as absolutely classic character of the result, are perfectly evident in the successive interventions and modifications to which he subjected it, searching tirelessly, as always, for the ineffable and complex beauty of difficult simplicity.
Although there were some of the terracotta or bronze specimens, this unique piece, different from those, had not been exhibited on any occasion until its arrival at the Pablo Gargallo Museum.