Incorporation into the Museum collections of the assembly work based on the poem by Josep Gual, Landscape of the Ebro

Last October, Antoni Gual Lloret donated to the Museum a set of artistic works from the collection of his father, the writer Josep Gual Lloberes (Badalona 1920-2005), the majority dedicated by the authors.

Among these works is the assembly Landscape of the Ebro, made from the poem by Josep Gual that was part of his first published work, Salt in the neck, in 1964.

This artistic ensemble, by an unknown author and framed as if it was a painting, has, in the lower right part, a plaque engraved with the poem, on the left a field plate that, as a meal, has remains of bullet magazines or rusty grenades and , in the upper right, the rusted remnant of a soldier’s shoe. These elements were collected by Josep Gual himself in the area of ​​the Battle of the Ebro.

The poem was set to music by Teresa Rebull 1969 and the piece was considered by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán as “one of the most exciting and simple songs of the civil war.”

A work, therefore, very significant that becomes part of the movable assets of the city.