EDUARDO CHILLIDA (1924 San Sebastián 2002) Aurera VII. 1969. Collage and litho colour on Japan paper. Signed and with the artist's signet in pencil lower right: Chillida. Lower left titled: AURERA. 21.5 × 30 cm. With the confirmation and explanations by the Sucesión Chillida, 5 November 2021. Provenance: - Erker Galerie, St. Gallen (verso with the label). - Purchased from the above by the present owner, since then private collection Switzerland. "Aurera", the title of the present work by Eduardo Chillida, means something like " forwards" in Basque and is thus a synonym for "bon à tirer". The present collage is therefore the artist's model for the central, and at the same time the largest sheet of the later 8-part series for the book "Martin Heidegger: Art and Space", published in 1969.

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