EDUARDO CHILLIDA -8/150

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EDUARDO CHILLIDA 8/150, YEAR 1980 , PENCIL HAND SIGNED. SI ZE: 30'5 cmx 26 cm Eduardo Chillida was born in 1924 in the Spanish Basque country. From 1943 till 1947, he studied architecture at the University of Madrid, studies that he left. In 1947, Chillida took courses of drawing and began to sculpture. In 1948, and for three years, he lived in Paris and exhibit works to the Salon de Mai. He settled down to Hernani (Spain) in 1951 and made wrought iron abstract sculptures, so taking responsibility for the tradition of the wrought- iron makers of the Basque country. The first exhibition of Eduardo Chillida is organized in 1954 and, four years later, the artist received the first prize of Sculpture in the Biennale de Venice. In search of the inaccessible, the work of Eduardo Chillida consisted in defining the space which animated the subject, he worked the iron, cut the granite, the alabaster, the steel, the wood, mould the clay, conceived imaginary labyrinths. All over the world, Chillida made monumental sculptures for publics orders.