A work by the Aragonese sculptor Pablo Gargallo, which is exhibited in the museum that gives number in Zaragoza, travels to Caldes d'Estrac (Maresme) to participate in the exhibition 'Picasso in the retina. Catalan artists portray Picasso', organized by the Palau Foundation in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the death of the Málaga painter.
This is the work 'Picasso's Mask', made in bronze in 1913, which will be exhibited in the Catalan town between October 21 and February 18, 2024.
The Palau Foundation exhibition allows the public to follow the image of the Málaga author through his friends, among whom was Gargallo. It will include works from the Picasso Museum in Barcelona, the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC), the Subirachs Space, the Thermalia museum and from private collections.
Gargallo created this work after settling in Paris, in an environment of great creative effervescence and difficult, even miserable, living conditions. There is a terracotta edition of seven copies of the work.
From the stone sculpture 'Portrait of Picasso' (1913), Pablo Gargallo made a plaster cast to obtain the model that later allowed him to make terracotta and bronze editions of this mask, which is perhaps the artistic image of the most famous painter. reproduced of all time.
Previously, the Aragonese sculptor executed the portrait 'Pablo Picasso' (1907), a false keystone for the Teatro del Bosque in Barcelona, and then 'The Young Man with the Daisy' or 'The Aragonese' (1927), probably inspired by the image of the naked painter.
