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Eduardo CHILLIDA (1924–2002) Composition, 1966
Signed in ink…
See original version (French)
15
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Eduardo CHILLIDA (1924–2002) Composition, 1966
Signed in ink…
See original version (French)
Estimate €10,000 - €15,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Eduardo CHILLIDA (1924–2002)
Composition, 1966
Signed in ink lower left.
20 x 33 cm
Provenance: Private collection, San Sebastián.
The work is registered in the archives of the Chillida Foundation under no. CH66DT23.
Eduardo Chillida is undoubtedly the most famous artist in the Basque Country. He enjoys international renown. As early as 1966, for the first exhibition of the GAUR Group, his name, like that of Oteiza, served as a veritable springboard for this avant-garde movement.
Widely recognised as a sculptor, and for the graphic rendering of his forms, Eduardo Chillida draws from Basque culture a respect for materials: iron, wood, stone, alabaster, or steel; and proposes to shape space with or within them. His legacy in this regard is immense.
But this mastery, acquired from the mid-1960s onwards, is the result of a process of reflection and development during which he allowed form to run free before taming it.
The ink drawing presented here (lot 15) dates from 1966, the very year of the GAUR exhibition. It perfectly captures this transition, from a free-flowing ink line yet guided by the hand of the tamer of space and material.
Initially a student of architecture until 1947, he soon turned to the Fine Arts. He exhibited as early as 1950, then again in 1956 at the Galerie Maeght, and in 1954 at the Galerie Denise René. Following his recognition at the 1958 Venice Biennale, the exhibition ‘Three Spaniards: Picasso, Miró,
Chillida’ at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston in 1962 illustrates the level of fame Chillida had already attained at the time of the founding of the GAUR Group.
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