Eulalia Fábregas of Sentmenat

EULALIA FÁBREGAS DE SENTMENAT (Barcelona, 1900 - 1992).
"Female figure".
Bronze.
Signed.
Measurements: 50 x 64 x 44 cm.
Eulalia Fábregas de Jacas, married Fábregas-Sentmenat, was a sculptor influenced by her origin and her cultural environment, who contributed to the renovation of the Mediterranean current by contributing a personal stamp to the already known rotundity of the volumes. In 1924 she married Ramón de Sentmenat, a member of the high aristocracy, with whom she had two children. The unexpected death of her son Ramón would later unleash her love and devotion for sculpture, after a period focused on poetry. Self-taught, he soon finished his first work, a Pietà in memory of his son, and upon its completion he decided to devote the rest of his life to sculpture. He sculpted for decades, and did not exhibit for the first time until 1964, when he showed his work at the Sala Parés in Barcelona. Her exhibition was praised by the critics, which led her to exhibit her work again in a few but important solo exhibitions. Among them was the solo exhibition held in 1974 in the halls of the Dirección General de Bellas Artes in Madrid, which was thus commented by the critics: "Eulalia Fábregas de Sentmenat returns to sculpture its genuine character; these volumes, in effect, inhabit a space that they eurythmize and soothe. Mediterranean sculpture, yes, and Apollonian, almost ataraxic, in which the supreme theme of the female body recovers its dignity and its severe grace. The modeling is perfect, luminous. The stone becomes warm geometry and becomes humanized". Eulalia Fábregas used traditional materials, considered noble, especially marble, although she also worked with unpolychromed wood and bronze, in pieces of greater dynamism and formal freedom.