EDUARDO CHILLIDA JUANTEGUI (San Sebastian, 1924 - 2002)._x000D_ EDUARDO CHILLIDA…
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EDUARDO CHILLIDA JUANTEGUI (San Sebastian, 1924 - 2002)._x000D_

EDUARDO CHILLIDA JUANTEGUI (San Sebastian, 1924 - 2002)._x000D_ "Leizarán", 1987._x000D_ Etching and aquatint on Rives paper, copy 24/50._x000D_ Publisher: Galería Theo, Madrid. Printed by Hatz Workshop._x000D_ Work published in "Eduardo Chillida: Opus III". Verlag 1996, pg.100-101. num. 87018._x000D_ Provenance: Elvira González Gallery, Madrid._x000D_ Signed and numbered in pencil._x000D_ Measurements: 95 x 67 cm.(plate); 99 x 64 cm.(paper)._x000D_ "Leizarán", dedicated to the valley of the same name, has been one of Chillida's most acclaimed engravings, having even been granted its use (by Andoain Town Council) as the logo for the Leitzaran bisitarien etxea Centre in 2008. Chillida began drawing at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, and his interest in sculpture gradually grew. It was during his years in Paris when he made his first plaster sculptures, impressed by the archaic Greek sculpture in the Louvre. He held his first sculpture exhibition in the French capital in 1950. In 1951 he returned to San Sebastián for good, and produced his first work in iron, the material he would work with for the rest of his life. Throughout his life, Chillida received numerous prizes and awards, including the Carnegie Prize, the Rembrandt Prize, the Wolf Foundation Prize for the Arts and the Prince of Asturias Prize for the Arts. He was also an academician of San Fernando, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Honorary of the Royal Academy of Arts in London and of the Imperial Order of Japan, and was awarded the Grand Cross for Humanitarian Merit by the Institution of the same name in Barcelona. In addition to his Chillida-Leku Museum in Hernani, he is represented in museums and collections all over the world, such as the Guggenheim in Bilbao, the MOMA in New York, the Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Tate Gallery in London and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.

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EDUARDO CHILLIDA JUANTEGUI (San Sebastian, 1924 - 2002)._x000D_

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