The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of March 29, 2024
Pensive Face
1929
(Spanish, 1876–1942)
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
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Location: 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.- Julio GonzalezMadelaine Chalette LejwaJulio Gonzalez; [Madelaine Chalette Lejwa]
- 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
- 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).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 24-July 19, 1981).CMA 1981: "Year in Review 1980," Bulletin, LXVIII (June 1981), cat. no. 92, p. 213, repr. p. 199Utica, NY, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1963Buffalo, NY, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1963San Francisco Museum of Fine Art, 1962Montreal Museum of Fine Art, 1962National Gallery of Ottawa, 1962NY, Gal. Chalette, 1961Berne, Kunsthalle, 1955,
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