Julio González (Barcelona, 1876 – Arcueil, 1942). Portrait of Maria Theresa with veil. August 9, 1941. Pastel on Paper. 23.8 x 31.4 cm. CONDITION: Good condition. PROVENANCE: - Private collection, Paris. PUBLISHED: - GIBERT, J. Julio Gonzalez. Dessins. Vol. 7, Portraits. Catalog raisonné of drawings. Ed. Carmen Martínez. 1975. P. 136, illustrated. DESCRIPTION: Signed in the lower left corner “9.8.41 J. G.”. Label on the back with its cataloging. In this portrait made in black pastel on paper a year before his death, Julio González shows his interest in returning to the localist naturalism typical of the last stage of his career, after his evolution towards formal purification in the previous decades. In his sculptures and drawings of recent years, González will resort to the theme of Montserrat, the Catalan peasant girl with a scarf, who becomes the latest incarnation of that timeless female figure to which he returned again and again throughout his entire career. artistic. In this late portrait, González reflects his concern for the relationship between volume and line, between full and empty, between light and shadow, which was a constant in his career. The woman fixes her gaze on the viewer without seeing him, with a hieratic, introspective expression, which has more to do with the representation of the transcendent than with the mere reflection of formal reality.