Terrace in Guimerá MCMIX

In the Museum of Terrassa there is a bronze, repertoire, from another version that we assume is earlier and is differentiated by a floral element that hangs from the base of the relief. It is probably the first version (later modified by Gargallo) and responds to a commission for the tribute that Terrassa paid to the playwright Àngel Guimerà on June 24, 1909. The work was installed in the passageway of the stalls of the Teatro Principal de Terrassa, from where it apparently disappeared after the last civil war, returning to public light when in 1999 it was donated by an individual to the Museum of Terrassa.

This relief may have given rise to another later work by Gargallo for Terrassa, specifically the sculptural decoration of the Facade of the Teatro Principal, 1911, in said city, according to a remodeling project signed in 1909 by the architects Francesc de P. Guàrdia i Vial and Enric Catà i Catà, who commissioned Pablo to create the central groups and various ornamental details, all of which have disappeared and are currently unrecoverable, due to the poor quality of the stone used.

The formal and iconographic similarities with other pieces from the first decade of the century are obvious and evident, especially El amor, ca. 1906, included in this catalog. In both, both the training process that Gargallo was going through (suggested above all by the presence of some characteristic influences) and the need to satisfy, up to certain limits, the decorative taste of the time are perfectly evident.