Self-portrait

This is one of the many self-portraits (naturalistic or idealized, expressionist at times, but often simple sketches, funny fantasies or caricatured and ironic visions of his own image) that Gargallo drew throughout his life, although here it is from an engraved drawing - a unique case, as far as we know - in which he is represented with the characteristic beret that he wears in some photographs in which he appears working in his workshop, a clothing accessory that gives him the unmistakable appearance of a manual worker or solvent master in some traditional, equivocal trade that amused him and responds very well to his. truly great artist spirit.