Eduardo Chillida

EDUARDO CHILLIDA (San Sebastian, 1924 - 2002).
"Jargune" 1996.
Etching and aquatint on Eskulan paper, copy 29/100.
Signed and justified in pencil.
With stamp of the Eder gallery (Vitoria) on the back.
Reproduced in: Opus III, pg 310-311
Measurements: 10,5 x 14,1 cm.(print); 65,5 x 51 cm.(paper); 77 x 64 cm.(frame).

The "Jargune" series is part of the artist's mature graphic production, where he transfers to engraving the same formal principles that characterize his sculpture: tension between planes, balance between full and empty and an abstract language of great expressive force.

Eduardo Chillida was one of the most important Spanish sculptors of the 20th century and a key figure in international abstract sculpture. Throughout his life, he received numerous awards, including the Carnegie Award, the Rembrandt Award, the Wolf Foundation of the Arts Award and the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts. He was an academician of San Fernando, and 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.

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 or the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.