Pablo Gargallo

Pablo EmilioorPau Emili Gargallo (5 January 1881 – 28 December 1934), known simply as Pau or Pablo Gargallo, was a Spanish sculptor and painter.

Life and career

Born in Maella, Aragon, he moved to Barcelona, with his family in 1888, where he would begin his training in the arts. Gargallo developed a style of sculpture based on the creation of three-dimensional objects from pieces of flat metal plate, and he also used paper or cardboard. Some of these sculptures have a form of cubism. For example, only one half of a face may be shown, and it may have only one eye. He also made more traditional sculptures in bronze, marble and other materials. He is considered to be one of the most significant artists of the town of ralls Aragonese avant-garde.

He spent a significant part of his life in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France. In 1903, he invested a studio at the ''Cité d'Artistes'', rue Vercingétorix in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. There he met Max Jacob and Carlos Casagemas, both friends of Pablo Picasso.Jean Anguera, ''Pablo Gargallo, sculptures et dessins'', exhibition catalogue, la Monnaie de Paris, April–June 2001, p. 55

In 1907, he stayed at the artists commune Le Bateau-Lavoir in MontmartreRafaël Ordoñez Fernández, ''Pablo Gargallo, La tradición de la vanguardia'', Museo Pablo Gargallo, 2004, Ed. Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza, p. 48 with Max Jacob, Juan Gris and other artists. He spent his first night in the studio of his friend Picasso, whose head he modeled as a sculpture. There he was able to contemplate Picasso's seminal proto-Cubist painting '' Les Demoiselles d'Avignon''. Shortly thereafter, Juan Gris introduced him to Magali Tartanson, whom he married in 1915. During this period, Gargallo was influenced by the work of Picasso.

Among Gargallo's works are three pieces based on Greta Garbo: "Masque de Greta Garbo à la mèche," "Tête de Greta Garbo avec chapeau," and "Masque de Greta Garbo aux cils."
Together with Dídac Masana, Gargallo sculpted the great arch over the front of the stage of the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona. The work depicts the Ride of the Valkyries in Richard Wagner's opera '' Die Walküre'' (''The Valkyries'').

Gargallo suffered from fulminating bronchial pneumonia and died in Reus, Tarragona. He is considered to be one of the most significant artists of the Spanish avant-garde, and in 1985 the Pablo Gargallo Museum in Zaragoza opened in the former Argillo Palace. Gargallo's birthplace and early home, on the street now dedicated to his name in Maella, Zaragosa, has been transformed into a museum dedicated to his life and works.

Gallery

File:Pablo Gargallo, 1913, Masque de Picasso (Portrait of Picasso), sculpture, from Maurice Raynal, 1921.jpg, Pablo Gargallo, 1913, ''Masque de Picasso (Portrait of Picasso)'', sculpture, from Maurice Raynal, 1921

Further reading

*P. Courthion: L'Oeuvre complet de Pablo Gargallo (Paris, 1973) ith catalogue raisonnee by P. Anguera-Gargallo*A. Cirici: Gargallo i Barcelona (Barcelona, 1975)
*J. Anguera: Gargallo (Paris, 1979)
*Gargallo (exhib. cat., Paris, Mus. A. Mod. Ville Paris, 1981
*Gargallo: Exposicio del centenari (exhib. cat. by M.L. Borras and others, Barcelona, Ajuntament, 1981)
*Gargallo (exhib. cat., Paris, Gal. Marwan-Hoss, 1983; 1989)
*El Museo Pablo Gargallo (Saragossa, 1985)
*Gargallo (exhib. cat., London, Gimpel Fils, 1986)
*Gargallo (exhib. cat., New York, Arnold Herst & Co. Gal., 1987)
*Catalogo del Museo Pablo Gargallo (Madrid, 1991)
*Gargallo (exhib. cat., Pontoise, Mus. Pontoise, 1992)

References

External links

Musée Pablo Gargallo

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
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1881 births
1934 deaths
19th-century Spanish painters
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20th-century Spanish painters
Sculptors from Aragon
Modern sculptors
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20th-century Spanish sculptors
20th-century Spanish male artists
19th-century Spanish sculptors
19th-century Spanish male artists
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People of Montmartre