Teenager torso

There is also one example in terracotta, two in pink marble (one of them in the Museum of Montserrat), one in white marble and one in black marble, all of them listed.

All the specimens were made by Gargallo himself, with the collaboration of point scorers for the marbles. Of course there are differences between them: terracotta is smaller, as a result of the loss in size produced by firing; The marbles, all unique pieces and with individual finishes, are not exactly the same either, especially the black marble specimen, somewhat larger in size.

Due to the special characteristics that distinguish it, especially if we consider the obvious differences deduced from its comparison with the rest of the classicist nudes of recent years, we cannot help but think that this exceptional demonstration of Gargallo's sculptural mastery is a version enlarged and again recreated from his Small Torso of a Woman, 1925 (which in turn derives from the thinnest of the Water Carriers, 1925), given the notable correlations of conceptual approaches and formal execution that can be established between both, without prejudice to the fact that It deals with two absolutely independent works and highlights the extraordinary expressive and plastic category of this adolescent torso, which perhaps, with Torso de gitanillo, 1923, is one of the two most beautiful examples of the author's classicist-oriented art.