Margarita Sans and Jordi

MARGARITA SANS I JORDI (Barcelona, 1911–2006).
"Female Bust."
Bronze.
Signed.
Measurements: 30 x 20 x 20 cm.
The sculptor Margarita Sans i Jordi was a student of Àngels Ferrant and Josep Llimona. She held her first exhibition in Barcelona (1932). After winning the Conde de Cartagena scholarship in Madrid (1936), she went to Paris, where she studied under C. Despiau. She exhibited in Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, and elsewhere. Her style can be described as a stylized interpretation of Llimona’s work. She focused particularly on the female nude and religious sculpture. In 1942, she created sculptures of Abbot Oliva and Saint Benet, intended to preside over the Chapter House of the Monastery of Montserrat, and years later, in 1954, also commissioned by the monastery, the monumental Via Crucis ensemble (Sant Benet, a station of the Via Crucis at Montserrat). She also carved two sculptures for the Convalecientes nursing home in Madrid and a sculptural group for a cemetery in Madrid. In 1956, she sculpted *The Mystery of Jesus*, which is carried in the Good Friday procession in Sitges. Works by Margarida Sans are held at the MNAC and the European Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona, as well as in collections in New York and Paris.