Margarita Gil Roësset
{{Short description|Spanish sculptor (1908–1932)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Margarita Gil Roësset
| image = Marga Gil Roësset.jpg
| caption = Margarita Gil Roësset, 1932
| other_names = Marga Gil Roësset
| birth_date = 3 March 1908
| birth_place = Madrid, Spain
| death_date = 28 July 1932 (age 24)
| death_place = Las Rozas de Madrid, Spain
| occupation = Sculptor, illustrator, poet
| movement = Art Nouveau, symbolism, expressionism
| relatives = {{III|Consuelo Gil Roësset|es|Consuelo Gil}} (sister),
María Roësset Mosquera (aunt),
Marisa Roësset Velasco (cousin)
}}
Margarita Gil Roësset (3 March 1908 in Madrid – 28 July 1932 in Las Rozas) also known as Marga Gil Roësset, was a Spanish sculptor, illustrator, and poet. She is remembered for her sculptures in the genres of Art Nouveau, symbolism, and expressionism which were successfully exhibited at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Spain during her lifetime.{{cite book |last1=Jiménez |first1=Juan Ramón |title=Marga |date=2015 |publisher=Fundación José Manuel Lara |isbn=978-84-15673-05-7 |language=es}}{{cite news |title=Las Sinsombrero: la breve vida de Marga Gil Roësset |url=https://amigaindomita.com/2018/10/02/las-sinsombrero-la-breve-vida-de-marga-gil-roesset/ |access-date=26 May 2022 |work=La amiga indómita |date=2 October 2018 |language=es}}{{cite news |title=Who was Marga Gil? |url=https://womennart.com/2019/10/23/who-was-marga-gil/ |access-date=26 May 2022 |work=Women'n Art |date=23 October 2019}}{{cite news |last1=Hernández |first1=Susana |title=Me llamo Margarita Gil y me enamoré fatal, desbordante, desesperadamente de Juan Ramón Jiménez |url=https://ctxt.es/es/20190814/Culturas/27637/Susana-Hernandez-Margarita-Gil-Roesser-Juan-Ramon-Jimenez-las-sin-sombrero.htm |access-date=26 May 2022 |work=ctxt.es {{!}} Contexto y Acción |language=es}}{{cite book |last1=Renders |first1=Hans |last2=Veltman |first2=David |title=Different Lives: Global Perspectives on Biography in Public Cultures and Societies |date=15 June 2020 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-43497-4 |page=79 |language=en}}
Life and career
Margarita Gil Roësset was born on 3 March 1908, in Madrid, to parents Cecilia Margot Roësset Mosquera, and Julián Gil Clemente.{{Cite web |date=3 March 2008 |title=Cien años de Marga Gil, la escultora que se suicidó enamorada de Juan Ramón |url=http://www.soitu.es/soitu/2008/03/03/info/1204556637_728526.html |access-date=2025-04-15 |website=Soitu.es}} Her birth was complicated and the doctors predicted a premature death, but her mother refused to let her second child die, and managed to keep her alive.{{Cite web |last=Ediciones El País |first= |date=28 January 2015 |title=Quién fue Marga Gil y por qué debería interesarte (más allá de su suicidio por Juan Ramón Jiménez) |url=https://verne.elpais.com/verne/2015/01/28/articulo/1422448494_378717.html |access-date= |website=Verne |language=es}} She had three siblings. Her older sister was Spanish publisher {{III|Consuelo Gil Roësset|es|Consuelo Gil}}, and her aunt was Spanish painter María Roësset Mosquera.{{Cite web |last=Asenjo |first=Patricia Ponce de |date=2023-02-12 |title=Las Roësset, una familia de artistas y el cambio de la situación de la mujer en España a principios del siglo XX |trans-title=The Roëssets, a family of artists and the changing status of women in Spain at the beginning of the 20th century |url=https://www.eldebate.com/historia/20230212/roesset-familia-artistas-cambio-situacion-mujer-espana-principios-siglo-xx_91588.html |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=El Debate |language=es}}
File:Consuelo and Marga Gil Roësset.png
At age 7, she started drawing. In 1920, her sister Consuelo wrote El Niño de Oro (English: The Golden Boy), and it was illustrated by Margarita. In 1923, both sisters published another story, Rose des Bois (English: Wood Rose) in Paris.{{Cite web |last=Amiguet |first=Teresa |date=2012-07-27 |title=Suicidio de la escultora Margarita Gil enamorada de J.R. Jiménez |url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/hemeroteca/20120728/54325079022/suicidio-de-la-escultora-margarita-gil-enamorada-de-j-r-jimenez.html |access-date=2025-04-15 |website=La Vanguardia |language=es}} By age 15, Margarita improved her drawing skills and switched her focused towards sculpture.
Gil Roësset had been an admirer of Zenobia Camprubí, the Spanish writer of Catalan and Puerto Rican descent, who also translated works by Rabindranath Tagore.{{Cite web |last=Rodrigo |first=Inés Martín |date=2015-01-24 |title=Marga Gil Roësset: Diario de su amor imposible hacia Juan Ramón Jiménez |url=https://www.abc.es/cultura/libros/20150124/abci-marga-juan-ramon-diario-201501231936.html |access-date=2025-04-15 |website=Diario ABC |language=es}} Camprubí was married to Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón, and together the couple attended Margarita Gil Roësset's opera recital in 1932 and they were introduced to Gil Roësset through a mutual friend. Gil Roësset decided to create a bust of Camprubí, and had also expressed feelings of love towards her husband Jiménez Mantecón in her diary.
She shot herself and died by suicide on 28 July 1932, in Las Rozas de Madrid at the age of 24. Before her death she gave letters to members of her family and to Jiménez Mantecón. Her private diary entries about Jiménez Mantecón were published in 1997.
Publications
- {{Cite book |last=Gil Roësset |first=Consuelo |author-link=Consuelo Gil |title=El Niño de Oro |publisher=Mateu |others=Marga Gil Roësset (illustrations) |year=1920 |location=Madrid, Spain |trans-title=The Golden Boy}}
- {{Cite book |last=Gil Roësset |first=Consuelo |title=Rose des Bois |date=1923 |publisher=Plon |others=Marga Gil Roësset (illustrations) |location=Paris, France |trans-title=Wood Rose}}
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