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Chillida

Chillida. Salamanca. Segovia. Avila. Alcalá de Henares. Madrid. Toledo. Eduardo Chillida. 1924 – 2002 (Eduardo Chillida Juantegui) Basque from San Sebastián (Donostia)

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Chillida

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  1. Chillida

  2. Salamanca Segovia Avila Alcalá de Henares Madrid Toledo

  3. Eduardo Chillida • 1924 – 2002 (Eduardo Chillida Juantegui) • Basque from San Sebastián (Donostia) • Materials: space 11 stories high inside a mountain (one of Canary Islands), iron, steel, wood, alabaster, cement, clay, paper, stone, and plaster • One of 3 great 20th century sculptors (Brancusi, Giocometti) • 1971: professor at Harvard • 1984: buys house/studio “Zabalaga” in Hernani • 1986: creates logotype for Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid

  4. Eduardo Chillida and his wife, Pila de Belzunce, in a mirror in his Basque farmhouse-studio (2000) 1950, married (8 children)

  5. Eduardo Chillida and his son Eduardo Chillida Belzunce

  6. “Guernica”; cement sculpture in Guernika conmemorating 50th anniversary of Nazi bombing of Guernika (1937 – 1987)

  7. “Eulogy to water”; Barcelona (1987); sculpture in concrete and steel wire

  8. 1953: “Yunque de los sueños” Wood and iron

  9. “The House of J.S. Bach” (1980) Steel

  10. “The House of Hokusai” (1981) Steel

  11. “Elogio del vacío” (1983) Steel

  12. “Chair of Omar Khayyam III” (1983) Steel

  13. “Homage to Juan Gris” (1987) Steel

  14. “Homage to the Sea” (1984) Alabaster

  15. “Lurra 67” (1987) Terracotta

  16. Drawing of hand (undated, but from late 1940’s)

  17. Chillida’s emblem for San Juan de la Cruz; paper collage (1993)

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