Pere Jou (1891-1964)

Sculptor. He studied at the Ateneo Obrero de Gracia and helped his teacher with the Hospital de Sant Pau decoration.
He continued his studies at the School of Fine Arts of La Lonja.
He had a great artistic activity in the 20s, with works in Barcelona, exhibitions, publishing on a Sitges magazine …
During those years he created fifty chapiters in the Maricel palace that Charles Deering built in Sitges. He also created the friezes of the Casino Prado Suburense in 1922.
In 1962 he began to lengthen the scenes in the friezes but could not finish them because he died.

After the war he dedicated his works to the religious imagery, restoring some war damaged altars and images. He sculpted the Holy Christ in the Sitges church (1942), the tabernacles both of the Virgen de los Dolores (1940) and of the Piedad (1946).

Through a public collection in 1965,  a mermaid modeled by the artist in the fifties was casted in bronze. Currently it can be seen at the foot of the steps of La Punta, in the Club Nàutic breakwater.

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