Desconsol, Josep Llimona 1903

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Despair, Josep Llimona 1903

A girl, slumped to her knees, her hands delicately clasped and her face covered by her mane of hair, rises up in the middle of the pond in the Plaça d’Armes, in Barcelona’s Parc de la Ciutadella. It seems that nothing or no one can console her. Here Despair takes the form of the sculpture of a woman.

The sculptor Josep Llimona received the prize for the 5th International Art Exhibition in 1903, for his first version of the public sculpture Despair. The one in the Parc de la Ciutadella is a copy of the 1917 original, which was made of marble and is now on display at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya.