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PABLO GARGALLO CATALÁN (Maella, Zaragoza, 1881 - Reus, Tarragona, 1934). "Harlequin's Head", 1928. Drypoint on laid paper, copy 9/12. Signed in plate: PG 28. With hand-painted period frame. Presents some lack of polychrome. Some stains on the paper. Measurements: 18 x 13 cm (plate); 22 x 17 cm (paper); 43 x 37 cm (frame). Rare print by the artist. Only one edition of 12 numbered copies was made of this work. The Pablo Gargallo Museum has the original plates of the only four drypoint engravings by Gargallo (Self-Portrait, Harlequin's Head, Female Nude and Ballerina). Pablo Gargallo is considered the precursor of iron sculpture, and learned the technique of forging from his father, who owned a blacksmith shop. In 1888 his family emigrated to Barcelona for economic reasons and there he began his artistic training, in the workshop of the sculptor Eusebio Arnau and in the School of La Lonja, with Venancio Vallmitjana as his main teacher. At the height of Modernism in Barcelona, Gargallo frequented the gatherings of "Els quatre Gats", establishing relationships with artists such as Nonell and Picasso. That is why his first works are influenced by Modernism, as is the case of the decoration of Barcelona buildings that he made in collaboration with the architect Domènech i Montaner, such as the Hospital de la Santa Cruz y San Pablo or the Palau de la Música. In 1903 Gargallo obtained a scholarship that allowed him to travel to Paris to complete his studies. His stay in the French capital was brief, but from then until 1923, when he settled permanently in Paris, his trips there would be frequent. In this city he found the aesthetic formulations of cubism, assimilated its expressive systems and sought the schematism and essentiality of figures and objects, trying to find the authentic three-dimensional expression of the cubist postulates. During these years he began to use metallic materials such as sheet metal, copper and iron. Around 1911-12 he made his first masks, pieces of great simplification made with cut sheet metal, linked to the cubist aesthetic. Using sheet metal, Gargallo began to suggest volumes and exalt the voids through the penetration of light into the interiors. In 1920 he was appointed professor of sculpture at the Escuela Técnica de Oficios Artísticos de la Mancomunidad de Cataluña, a post from which he was removed in 1923 for political reasons. It was then that Gargallo settled permanently in Paris with his wife and daughter. From this moment on his style acquires a very personal dimension, derived from his interpretation of cubism, based on the search for a formal synthesis of the figure in geometric planes always fluid, replacing conventional materials with wrought iron sheets, and introducing a new sculptural language by introducing the void as volume and giving his figures a great expressive dramatism. Pablo Gargallo is currently represented in the museum that bears his name in Zaragoza, the MoMA in New York, MACBA in Barcelona, the Museum of Modern Art in Paris and the Reina Sofia in Madrid, among many others.

JEANLOUP SIEFF (Paris, 1933-2000). "Yves Saint Laurent, Paris, 1971. Gelatin silver. Signed and dated in ink (in the margin). With artist's stamp on the reverse. Provenance: private collection O'Hara New York. Measurements: 30 x 31 cm (image); 40,7 x 31 cm (paper). The photograph of Yves Saint Laurent taken by Jeanloup Sieff in Paris (1971) was taken during a period of great creativity in fashion and photography. Yves Saint Laurent was already a prominent figure in the fashion world, known for his revolutionary designs, and Sieff was already a renowned portraitist of great personalities. Jeanloup Sieff was known for his ability to capture the elegance and sensuality of his subjects. His distinctive style includes a masterful use of black and white playing with light and shadow. In this photograph, Sieff uses these techniques to highlight Saint Laurent's figure and character. By showing the designer nude, this image conveys the subject's vulnerability and his stripping of pretense, offering an intimate look at the man behind the fashion icon. Jeanloup Sieff was a French photographer, his work has been recognized for his portraits of show business personalities and politicians, but also for his reportage, landscape and nude photographs. He was born in Paris on November 30, 1933 to parents of Polish origin. His studies after high school were brief: he studied Letters for two weeks, journalism for ten days, photography at the Vaugirard School in France for a month and then in Vevey Switzerland for seven months. His love for photography made him start as an "amateur" photographer at the age of fifteen, gradually raising his photographic quality to debut as a photojournalist in 1954. A year later he joined the magazine Elle, where he first made reports and then fashion photography until he left the magazine in 1959. That year he began working for Réalités and Le Jardin des Modes. He also left the Magnum agency to work on his own. He was awarded the Niépce Prize in 1959 for photographic excellence. In 1961, he settled in New York, where he collaborated with Look, Esquire, and mainly Harper's Bazaar. He had brief stays in Europe where he worked for Twen, Vogue and Queen. In 1967, she decided to move to Paris, where she worked for Vogue, Femme, Nova and other publications. He exhibited nationally and internationally and several of his works were acquired by various museums around the world. In 1971 she received the gold medal of the museum of modern art in Skopje and that same year she donated several collections to the National Library of Paris, which at that time did not have the funds to buy photographs by French authors. The most outstanding characteristic of his work is the use of black and white, mainly wide-angle shots and his dramatic hallmarks in the laboratory. His style shows the influence of surrealism and new objectivity. His work has received international awards from Japan to the United States and is distributed in different parts of the world. Among the awards he has received are the Niépce Prize in 1959 and the Grand Prix National de Photographie in 1992. He was named Knight of the Legion of Honor. HELP Bidding by Phone 932 463 241 Buy in Setdart Sell in Setdart Payments Logistics Remember that bids placed in the last few minutes may extend the end of the auction, thus allowing enough time for other interested users to place their bids. Remember to refresh your browser in the last minutes of any auction to have all bidding information fully updated. Also in the last 3 minutes, if you wish, you can place consecutive bids to