Two works by the Aragonese sculptor Pablo Gargallo have once again aroused the interest of one of the Spanish museums of reference, the Picasso Museum of Barcelona. The sculptures will be exhibited there “Cleopatra” (marble, 1900) and “Picasso’s Mask.” (bronze, 1913), which will be on loan to the exhibition. “From Montmartre to Montparnasse. Catalan artists in Paris”. between November 21 and March 30, 2025.
This Tuesday, both pieces have traveled to Barcelona.where the exhibition will be organized centered on the Paris at the beginning of the 20th centurya city that became the world capital of modern art and the cradle of avant-garde experimentation. This exhibition allows the public to enter into the urban and human landscape of the time.The exhibition also provides an insight into the work of the artists and their constraints, as well as their leisure time and the shows. All this, in the context of two major historical events (the Universal Exhibition of 1889 and the outbreak of the Great War in 1914) and between two urban poles marked by artistic life: the Montmartre of the late nineteenth century and Montparnasse, which has been consolidated as a place related to art since the early twentieth century.
Gargallo traveled to Paris repeatedlythe first time in 1903 and the second in 1907, when he joined the avant-garde through the sculpture Small Mask with Tufts. He lived there from the fall of 1912 to the summer of 1914, a period when he met the seamstress he later married, Magali Tartanson. He lived with great names such as Pablo Picasso, Manolo Hugué, Juan Gris and Max Jacobs.. Later, he settled in the French capital from 1924 until his death ten years later.
INTEREST FROM OTHER MUSEUMS
The figure of Pablo Gargallo continues to interest first level museums. Last year, the City Council of Zaragoza made two loansThe work ‘The Couple’ (bronze, 1904), which was at the National Gallery in London, in the exhibition After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art, and ‘Picasso’s Mask’ (bronze, 1913) to the Palau Foundation (Caldes d’Estrac, Barcelona) for the exhibition ‘Picasso in the retina’.
This year, on October 8, the works ‘En la artesa’ (bronze, 1898) and ‘Los humildes’ (wood, 1904) from the exhibition ‘Arte y transformaciones sociales en España (1885 – 1910)’ returned from the Prado Museum. In fact, the ‘Picasso’s Mask’ is on loan again not even a year after being loaned to the Palau Foundation. at its headquarters in Caldes d’Estrac (Barcelona), since it arrived at the museum on February 23rd of this year.