Pere Pujol

Pere Ferrer Pujol, known as Pere Pujol (Artà, 1934 – Manacor, 2001), is Mallorca's great sculptor of traditional island life. Self-taught, as a child he was already modelling nativity figures in clay; he worked as a bricklayer until, at around 32, an illness led him to devote himself entirely to sculpture.

His work rescues in terracotta the farmers, trades and characters of popular culture that were disappearing with the arrival of tourism, alongside an important religious production: nativity scenes, Sant Antoni and the dimoni, and Holy Week sculptures such as the Pietà of Son Servera (1987) and the Crist dels Donants de Sang of Sineu (1994). He also worked in marble, stone, wood and bronze.

His milestones include the nearly sixty characters from Antoni M. Alcover's Mallorcan Rondalles — today the core of the ArtArtà museum, Casa Museu de Sa Rondaia, in Artà —, the Medal of the Salon of the Círculo de Bellas Artes of Mallorca on two occasions, and his presence in the collection of the Es Baluard museum in Palma. His rondalles even paraded at Barcelona's La Mercè festivities in the year 2000.