The Catalan sculptor Julio Gonzalez, born Julio Luis Jesus Gonzalez Pellicer on September 21, 1876 in Barcelona, died suddenly on March 27, 1942, at the age of 65, at his home in Arcueil (Val-de-Marne).
The only artists who attended his funeral, in a Paris occupied and emptied of almost all artistic life, were Pablo Picasso and the painter Luis Fernandez, a meditative man living in Paris since 1924. Picasso made a series of still lifes to represent, says- it, the
“death of Gonzalez”.
He pays homage to him, as he did with
La Mort de Casagemas
in 1901, after his friend's suicide at the age of 20.
Forty-one years later, here is a
Bull's Head
, bloody and placed on a gray surface, like the head of Saint John the Baptist offered to Salomé on a platter, at Caravaggio's.
This vanity of war takes up the angular structure, characteristic of the iron sculptures of Julio Gonzalez and the Spanish bullfighting tradition.
Like his
Bull's Head
, made just after from a handlebar...
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