Unveiling Pablo Gargallo's Later Works

Alice Prin was a singer, painter, and popular model for various artists, such as Cocteau and Man Ray. Gargallo created this sculpture in the form of a concave mask, incorporating emptiness so that we can naturally complete the missing elements to see Kiki's face.

One of Pablo Gargallo's innovations in sculpture was the use of metal sheets, first copper and later iron. In this sculpture, he starts with a flat copper sheet, then cuts and welds the different pieces to construct a masterpiece.

Can you imagine a moment where you close your eyes and the sun completely bathes you? This is the moment Gargallo captured with this magnificent sculpture, in which the forearms and hands belong to his daughter, Pierrette Gargallo, who served as an impromptu model.

One of Gargallo's favorite themes was mythology. Echo, the nymph punished by the goddess Hera to repeat only the last words she heard, is depicted with delicate lines and such expressive force that it invites us to feel the sound and movement.

Can one represent what exists only in our mind? Gargallo achieves this with this sculpture, which depicts the thoughts of his friend, the Russian painter Marc Chagall. The woman passing through his head with a bouquet of flowers is none other than his great love, Bella Rosenfeld.

The classical antiquity, classicist figuration, and the void are all part of this sculpture of the sky god Uranus and the winged horse Pegasus. In this work, Gargallo brings together many of his most significant achievements in terms of expressive concepts and plastic language.

Forty years passed from Gargallo's first academic drawing at the Escola de la Llotja in Barcelona to this beautiful sculpture. In it, Gargallo manages to refine volumes and formal features to the maximum, seeking the essential aspects of human representation.

In Hebrew mythology, David, the victor over Goliath, played the lyre to soothe King Saul. Gargallo depicts him dancing with his lyre and with extraordinary grace, conveying his joy for life. His curls and a very personal abstract figuration stand out.

In his last interview before he died, Gargallo confessed that his favorite classical sculpture was Woman in the Mirror. Gargallo plays with perspective, allowing us to observe the nude woman adjusting her hair through her own mi

This is the sculptor's most emblematic work, which he has been working on for almost 30 years. In it, Gargallo gathers and synthesizes almost all his expressive and conceptual achievements in the field of the representation of volumes, space and light.