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This is Gargallo's sculpture in which the formal synthesizing and the tendency towards the geometric are more evident, especially with regard to the flatness of the limbs and the body of the jubilant musician, who dances with extraordinary grace and manifests his unsurpassed joie de vivre.
In this piece, without still abandoning his solid concept of the human figure, but treating it in an absolutely innovative and synthetic way, Gargallo's work takes a fundamental step forward towards objectives, perhaps transcendental, that unfortunately he did not have time to achieve.
As a curiosity, there are two copies in cast iron, with three strings on the lyre, because the first David originally had them, in wrought iron, used as a model. But then Gargallo himself decided to remove said strings from the original model.
Title: David
Author: Pablo Gargallo
Date: 1934
Technique: Bronze
Displayed in: Pablo Gargallo Museum
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