Joan Salvado Voltas - Woman with goat

A patinated bronze sculputure deping a woman with a goat. Signed on back. Marble base. Total 50x34x12cm 6. 2kg. In general good condition, only an old smalll reppair on marble base, right-rear corner, not very visible. With certificate of authenticithy by a legal Art & antiques expert appraisser. Joan Salvadó i Voltas was born in Vila-seca on July 2, 1890, Spain, son of Francisco Salvadó y Forcadas and Brígida Voltas y Torredemé. At the age of 14 he began drawing studies, which he combined with working as an apprentice in the workshop of a sculptor from Reus. In Barcelona he studied Arts and worked on the Sagrada Familia. Under the orders of Antoni Gaudí, he sculpted several works, all of which disappeared during the Civil War. The most important, "The Annunciation", with an angel of three meters high. He continued his training in Paris, the world capital of art at that time, where he learned to sculpt ivory, bronze and work as a goldsmith. As a result of different experiences, he ended up becoming a magnificent restorer, specialized in Gothic art. On his return to Vila-seca, shortly before the Civil War, he restored the sculptures in the baptistery chapel of the Tarragona Cathedral and specialized in large-format sculptural religious imagery. The Vila-seca City Council made a tribute exhibition in September 1977, with the participation of many local artists.