EDUARDO CHILLIDA JUANTEGUI (San Sebastian, 1924 - 2002). "Euzkadi", 1975. Etching, copy 26/50.

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  EDUARDO CHILLIDA JUANTEGUI (San Sebastian, 1924 - 2002). "Euzkadi", 1975. Etching, copy 26/50. Ed. Maeght, Paris. Signed and justified in pencil. Work published in the catalog raisonné of the artist's graphic work: "Eduardo Chillida: Opus P.II. 1973-1985", Martin Van der Koelen, Ed. Chorus-Verlag, pages 106-107, ref. 75005. Size: 95 x 74.5 cm (footprint); 138 x 96 cm (paper); 141 x 99 cm (frame). Since the end of the 50's, Chillida worked the etching technique in parallel to his sculptural work. The "Euzkadi" series was produced by the Basque artist in the 1970s, a period of great importance in his graphic work production, an aspect that was reflected in the multitude of international awards and recognitions he received, including the 10th Tokyo Biennial of Engraving in Japan, the Ljubljana Biennial in Slovenia and the Rembrand Prize from the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Foundation in Basel. Understood as a tribute to the Basque Country, the "Euzkadi" series is made up of large-format etchings, which fuse Chillida's characteristic pictorial language with images of the geographical outline of the Basque Country, using the play of masses, empty spaces and identifying lines in his work. It is worth noting that the decade of the 70's was of great importance in the evolution of the Basque Country, the artist's homeland, to which he was closely linked emotionally. Chillida began drawing at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, and little by little his interest in sculpture grew. It was during his years in Paris when he made his first plaster sculptures, impressed by the archaic Greek sculpture in the Louvre. In the French capital he held his first sculpture exhibition in 1950. In 1951 he returned definitively to San Sebastian, and made his first work in iron, the material with which he would work 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 of 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 of London and of the Imperial Order of Japan, and received the Grand Cross for Humanitarian Merit from the Institution of the same name in Barcelona. In addition to his Chillida-Leku Museum in Hernani, he is represented in museums and collections around the world, such as the Guggenheim in Bilbao, the MOMA in New York, the Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Tate Gallery in London and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
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