# Pablo Gargallo > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Pablo_Gargallo > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Pablo_Gargallo.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Gargallo > Source revision: 1294719130 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Spanish painter}} {{More citations needed|date=January 2019}} {{family name hatnote|Gargallo|Catalán|lang=Spanish}} thumb|Pablo Gargallo in 1910 '''Pablo Emilio''' or '''Pau Emili Gargallo''' (5 January 1881 – 28 December 1934), known simply as '''Pau''' or '''Pablo Gargallo''', was a [Spanish](/source/Spanish_people) [sculptor](/source/sculpture) and [painter](/source/Painting). ==Life and career== Born in [Maella](/source/Maella), [Aragon](/source/Aragon), he moved to [Barcelona](/source/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](/source/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. thumb|upright|Pablo and Magali Gargallo in 1913, 45 rue Blomet, Paris thumb|upright|Pablo Gargallo, 1915, in his studio at 45 rue Blomet He spent a significant part of his life in the [Montparnasse Quarter](/source/Montparnasse_Quarter) of [Paris, France](/source/Paris%2C_France). In 1903, he invested a studio at the ''Cité d'Artistes'', rue Vercingétorix in the [14th arrondissement of Paris](/source/14th_arrondissement_of_Paris). There he met [Max Jacob](/source/Max_Jacob) and [Carlos Casagemas](/source/Carlos_Casagemas), both friends of [Pablo Picasso](/source/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](/source/Le_Bateau-Lavoir) in [Montmartre](/source/Montmartre)Rafaël Ordoñez Fernández, ''Pablo Gargallo, La tradición de la vanguardia'', Museo Pablo Gargallo, 2004, Ed. Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza, p. 48 with Max Jacob, [Juan Gris](/source/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](/source/Proto-Cubism) painting ''[Les Demoiselles d'Avignon](/source/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](/source/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](/source/D%C3%ADdac_Masana), Gargallo sculpted the great arch over the front of the stage of the [Palau de la Música Catalana](/source/Palau_de_la_M%C3%BAsica_Catalana) in Barcelona. The work depicts the [Ride of the Valkyries](/source/Ride_of_the_Valkyries) in [Richard Wagner](/source/Richard_Wagner)'s opera ''[Die Walküre](/source/Die_Walk%C3%BCre)'' (''The Valkyries''). Gargallo suffered from fulminating [bronchial pneumonia](/source/pneumonia) and died in [Reus](/source/Reus), [Tarragona](/source/Tarragona). He is considered to be one of the most significant artists of the Spanish avant-garde,{{Citation needed|date=October 2009}} and in 1985 the [Pablo Gargallo Museum](/source/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](/source/Maella), [Zaragosa](/source/Zaragosa), has been transformed into a museum dedicated to his life and works. ==Gallery== (Barcelona) Mascareta del pintor Isidore Nonell - Pablo Gargallo - Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.jpg|''[Isidre Nonell](/source/Isidre_Nonell)'', bronze, 1911, [MNAC](/source/Museu_Nacional_d'Art_de_Catalunya) (Barcelona) Retrat de Picasso - Pablo Gargallo - Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.jpg|''Portrait of Picasso'', stone, 1913, [MNAC](/source/Museu_Nacional_d'Art_de_Catalunya) P. Gargallo (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid) (4707764577).jpg|''Prophet'', bronze, 1933, [MNCARS](/source/Museo_Nacional_Centro_de_Arte_Reina_Sof%C3%ADa) ==See also== * [Sculptures in Plaça de Catalunya](/source/Sculptures_in_Pla%C3%A7a_de_Catalunya) ==Further reading== *P. Courthion: ''Louvre complet de Pablo Gargallo'' (Paris, 1973) [with catalogue raisonné 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: Exposició 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) *''Catálogo del Museo Pablo Gargallo'' (Madrid, 1991) *''Gargallo'' (exhib. cat., Pontoise, Mus. Pontoise, 1992) ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== {{Commons category|Pablo Gargallo}} * [http://www.zaragoza.es/ciudad/museos/es/gargallo/ Musée Pablo Gargallo] * [http://www.moma.org/search/collection?query=GARGALLO/ Museum of Modern Art, New York] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120307021559/http://collection.centrepompidou.fr/Navigart/index.php?db=minter&qs=1%2F Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris] * {{FrenchSculptureCensus}} {{Authority control (arts)|country=ES}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Gargallo, Pablo}} Category:1881 births Category:1934 deaths Category:19th-century Spanish painters Category:Spanish male painters Category:20th-century Spanish painters Category:Sculptors from Aragon Category:Spanish modern sculptors Category:Spanish modern painters Category:20th-century Spanish sculptors Category:20th-century Spanish male artists Category:19th-century Spanish sculptors Category:19th-century Spanish male artists Category:Spanish male sculptors Category:People of Montmartre --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Pablo Gargallo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Gargallo) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Gargallo?action=history)). 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