Pablo Gargallo was a Spanish avant-garde artist, best known for his figurative Cubist sculptures, cast from steel, bronze, and marble. Gargallo often made three-dimensional forms from flat sheets of cardboard, paper, and metal. Three of the most famous examples of this technique titled Masque de Greta Garbo à la mèche were based on the Swedish-born Hollywood star Greta Garbo. Born on January 5, 1881 in Maella, Spain, he is considered among the most influential Spanish artists of the 20th century. Having spent a decade of his life in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, Gargallo came into contact with artists like Max Jacob, Juan Gris, and Pablo Picasso, with whom he formed friendships and whose ideas and work would continue to impact him for the rest of his career. Despite securing a professorship at The Technical School of Artistic Crafts of the Community of Catalonia, Spain in 1920, Gargallo left Spain permanently after the rise of the dictatorial regime of Primo de Rivera. He died on December 28, 1934 in Reus, Spain. The artist’s work was memorialized by the opening of the Museo Pablo Gargallo in Zaragoza, Spain in 1985. His works can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.