Zaragoza gave two works of Pablo Gargallo to the exhibition in Barcelona, ​​which he considered Catalan

The work of Pablo Gargallo, the most famous Aragonese sculptor, together with Pablo Serrano, is the object of the desire of many museums of the planet to exhibit his sculptures. Last year the Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza gave 'La pareja' (bronze, 1904) to the National Gallery in London, and this year he created his own work with 'En la artesa'. (bronze, 1898) and 'Los humildes' (madera, 1904) al Prado.

This Tuesday, November 5, technicians at Aragon's Pablo Gargallo Museum packed and shipped two more works, “Mascara de Picasso” (bronze, 1913) and “Cleopatra” (marble and silver jewels, 1900). Against Barcelona There, the Picasso de la Ciudad Condal Museum received them.

According to the title of their intended exhibition, practically ordinary institutions que, en este caso concreto, genera automatique polemica, De Montmartre and Montparnasse. Catalan artists in Paris.

Pablo Gargallo was born on January 5, 1881 in Maella (Zaragoza) and lived there with his family for the first seven years of his life. In 1888 he moved to Barcelona. With the exception of six months between 1903 and 1904, a brief period in 1907, between the finals of 1912 and 1914, and various trips to Paris in the last decade of his life, he formed and developed the greater part of his artistic career. .

“El París que conocieros los creadores y creadoras catalanes a principios del siglo XX It was the world capital of modern art and the cradle of avant-garde experiments. “Painters, engravers, illustrators, musicians, translators, writers, journalists and other characters have shaped their vision of the city of light in works that we can now contemplate together in this magnificent exhibition,” explains the Picasso Museum. November 22 – March 30, 2025.

Exhibition Gargallo junto with Santiago Rusiñol, Ramon Casas, Isidre Nonell and Catalan artists included. Joaquim Sunyer, Lluisa Vidal, Laura Albéniz, Pau Casals, Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, Joaquim Nin, Maria Gay or Jaume Brossa. There are also many vices, such as the universal Pablo Ruiz Picasso.

This newspaper contacted the Zaragoza City Council to gather their impressions on the matter.