These photos were sent to me by the family of Bill Susman, American International Brigader, wounded at the Ebro. He brought this famous and lovely figure back from Catalonia in 1938. It’s called “El més petit de tots” (The smallest of them all”). It was created by the sculptor Miquel Paredes for the Comissariat de Propaganda of the Catalan government de la Generalitat de Catalunya in February 1937 as a symbol of the revolution and resistance of the Catalan people against fascism. There was also a children’s book. There were Catalan Republican, Anarchist and Communist versions. This one has the three-point star of the International Brigades so it’s in homage to that. They were usually painted so I guess this was unfinished when Bill acquired it, probably in Barcelona.