Woman combing her hair

The physical robustness of this woman and the relative exoticism of her face lead us to think of images from cultures other than European, but certain proportions seem to foreshadow the classicist figures of a clearly Mediterranean character that Gargallo would model in the middle of the next decade.

To the theme of the woman who combs her hair, Gargallo dedicated at least three drawings (the ink Woman Kneeling Combing Her Hair, 1903 - property of the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon -, the ink and gouache Toilette, 1903, the ink and watercolor Young combing her hair, 1909), and the copper sheet sculpture Woman combing her hair, 1931, formally and structurally related to the Cellist, 1931, currently missing.