Shepherd

The original plaster model corresponds to a cast, made by Gargallo himself, of the first original in stone, today in the National Museum of Art of Catalonia, Barcelona, ​​by donation from the relatives of Francisco Gargallo, the sculptor's brother.

At the Barcelona Art Exhibition in 1918, it was presented with the title Nu d¿home jove.

The structural and iconographic relationships between this and other works by Gargallo are very evident (and undoubtedly denote the early maturation of the author's extraordinary formal and expressive personality, and its no less admirable permanence throughout his entire career). , especially The Young Man with the Daisy (El Aragonese), 1927, and Boy on the Beach, 1934, both included in this catalog. In all cases it is, from a formal and even compositional point of view, an archetype of a masculine, young and athletic body (this would be the first of several exceptional athletes, explicit or not), absolutely personal and innovative in the very unique aspect. classicist of Gargallo's work.