(Maella, Spain, 1881 – Reus, Spain, 1934)
He studied at the School of Fine Arts of Barcelona from 1898. It was in 1911, on his second visit to Paris, that, disturbed by Picasso’s Cubist tendency, he began to turn towards contemporary art, although with certain reservations when working in clay, stone, or marble. On the other hand, when he works in iron, lead or copper, his manner is different.
«Certainly, although his style is becoming freer and freer, at the heart of his conception he remains true to naturalism. And almost all his iron works could be the framework for his clay sculptures. But, as in metal, he replaces volume by a hollow, by the flat surface or by the void circumscribed by a line; as he frequently expresses the concave by the convex, the closed form by the open form, and the tangible by the merely suggested – it turns out he should not be eliminated from the group of sculptors who promoted the birth of the new plastic language in Europe». (Joseph-Emile Muller).