Gil Roësset, Marga

Marga Gil Roësset was born on 3 March 1908 in Las Rozas in the Madrid metropolitan area. At the age of seven, she already showed an extraordinary ability to draw. Her talent was recognised in 1920 with the publication of a story by her sister entitled El niño de oro (The Golden Child), for which she created the illustrations. Three years later, the two sisters published another story, Rose des Bois, in Paris. At the age of 15, Gil Roësset began to devote herself to sculpture. At the age of 22, she presented the sculpture Adán y Eva at the Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes, which caused a sensation. In 1932, Gil Roësset was introduced to the Nobel Prize winner Juan Ramón Jiménez and his wife at an opera concert. The sculptor fell in love with the poet and dedicated a diary to him in which she confessed her unrequited love. On Thursday, 28 July 1932, she committed suicide by shooting herself in the temple.