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Pensive Face

1929

Julio González

(Spanish, 1876–1942)

Spain, 20th century

Iron mounted on painted wood

Framed: 34.9 x 30.5 x 8.3 cm (13 3/4 x 12 x 3 1/4 in.); Overall: 24.5 x 19.7 cm (9 5/8 x 7 3/4 in.)

Gift of Ralph King, by exchange 1980.32

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223 20th Century Avant-Garde

Description

González’s early iron sculptures—small heads in low relief made in 1928–29—are closely related in subject, style, and technique to the masks Pablo Gargallo had been producing in copper since 1907 and in iron since 1913. Both artists first learned metalworking techniques during their early years in Barcelona, a city renowned for its tradition of wrought-iron ornament, which reached a new climax in the buildings of Antoni Gaudí.

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Julio Gonzalez

Madelaine Chalette Lejwa

Julio Gonzalez; [Madelaine Chalette Lejwa]

Citations

Robinson, William H., Jordi Falgàs, Carmen Belen Lord, and Josefina Alix Trueba. Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí. [Cleveland, OH]: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2006. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 314-315, fig. 12, no. 7:6

Exhibition history

Berne, Kunsthalle, 1955,

NY, Gal. Chalette, 1961

San Francisco Museum of Fine Art, 1962

Montreal Museum of Fine Art, 1962

National Gallery of Ottawa, 1962

Utica, NY, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1963

Buffalo, NY, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1963

CMA 1981: "Year in Review 1980," Bulletin, LXVIII (June 1981), cat. no. 92, p. 213, repr. p. 199

Cleveland Museum of Art (10/15/2006 - 06/03/2007); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (03/04/2007 - 06/03/2007); "Barcelona & Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí. Miró, Dalí", fig. 12 (cat. 7:6), p. 315, repr. 315- EXHIBITED AT CMA VENUE ONLY.

Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 23-July 19, 1981).

Barcelona & Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí (1868-1939). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 15, 2006-January 7, 2007); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (co-organizer) (March 4-June 3, 2007).

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