Eduardo Chillida
Spanish Sculptor 1924 - 2002
Spanish Sculptor 1924 - 2002
Signed by artist
c. 1988
Framed: 33 3/4 x 42 inches
Inside Frame: 27 x 34 1/2 inches
Edition: 265/300
flat image
Competition in harmony. Original silkscreen with embossing to connect the two parts of the object at top and bottom, 1988. Edition: 300 signed and numbered impressions for the 1988 Seoul Olympics plus 300 HC impressions intended for the members of the International Olympic Committee. The publisher went bankrupt and the edition, though printed, was never published. Some copies have been released through the bankruptcy proceedings. Ours is a signed and numbered impression in excellent condition.
Lithograph with embossment on paper
35 x 27 inches (88.9 x 68.6 cm)
Signed, 215/300
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
Realized Price. 1. ,625 USD
Online Prints & Multiples Auction. A. uction Venue. Heritage Auctions, Dallas. Date Feb 27, 2018
Most Recent Sale
Estimate
1,800 - 2,400 EUR
Realized Price
2,250 EUR
Sale
Third Floor. Estimates up to EUR 3,000
Auction Venue
Sale Date
Jun 04, 2016
Lot 1370
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Eduardo Chillida
Spanish sculptor
Eduardo Chillida Juantegui, or Eduardo Txillida Juantegi in Basque, was a Spanish Basque sculptor notable for his monumental abstract works. Wikipedia
Born: January 10, 1924, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
Died: August 19, 2002, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
Chillida's sculptures concentrated on the human form (mostly torsos and busts); his later works tended to be more massive and more abstract, and included many monumental public works.[4] Chillida himself tended to reject the label of "abstract", preferring instead to call himself a "realist sculptor". Upon returning to the Basque Country in 1951, Chillida soon abandoned the plaster he used in his Paris works – a medium suited to his study of archaic figurative works in the Louvre.[5] Living near Hernani, he began to work in forged iron with the help of the local blacksmith, and soon set up a forge in his studio. From 1954 until 1966, Chillida worked on a series entitled Anvil of Dreams, in which he used wood for the first time as a base from which the metal forms rise up in explosive rhythmic curves.[6] He began to make sculpture in alabaster 1965.[2] Rather than turn over a maquette of a sculpture to fabricators, as many modern artists do, Chillida worked closely with the men in the foundry. He then usually added an alloy that caused the metal to take on a brilliant rust color as it oxidizes.[7]
From quite early on, Chillida's sculpture found public recognition, and, in 1954, he produced the four doors for the basilica of Arantzazu, where works by other leading Basque sculptors – Jorge Oteiza, Agustin Ibarrola and Nestor Basterretxea – were also being installed. The following year, he carved a stone monument to the discoverer of penicillin, Sir Alexander Fleming, for a park in San Sebastián (it subsequently disappeared, but a new version has been installed on the promenade at San Sebastián bay).[4] By the early 1970s, his steel sculptures had been installed in front of the Unesco headquarters in Paris, the ThyssenKrupp building in Düsseldorf, and in a courtyard at the World Bank offices in Washington