Little harlequin with flute

It was probably used by Gargallo (who repeatedly dealt with the image of the harlequin, both in sculpture - there are three silver brooches, three heads, nine masks and, in addition to the two with flute, the complete figure of Harlequin with mandolin, 1925) as in very diverse drawings and even in one of the four drypoints that he engraved, Cabeza de Arlequín, 1928, in this catalog) as a basic model to make, by extension, the Great Harlequin, 1931 -whose templates are included in this catalog- , which represents a notable technical advance if we consider the greater conceptual and formal complexity of its execution, achievements already announced in this small one, and even the notable increase in the material difficulties to be overcome, since the expanded version is resolved with very thick sheets of iron.