286 - EDUARDO CHILLIDA JUANTEGUI (San Sebastián, 1924–2002).

EDUARDO CHILLIDA JUANTEGUI (San Sebastián, 1924–2002). Untitled, 1975. Silkscreen print, P.A. edition. Signed on the screen and hand-registered. Printed by the Van der Voont Gallery. Printed by the Ibograf Ibiza print shop. Dimensions: 13 x 13 cm. Chillida began drawing at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, and his interest in sculpture gradually grew. It was during his years in Paris that he created his first plaster sculptures, inspired by the archaic Greek sculptures at the Louvre. He held his first sculpture exhibition in the French capital in 1950. In 1951, he returned permanently to San Sebastián and created his first work in iron, the material he would work with 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 Prize for the Arts, and the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts. He was also a member of the San Fernando Academy, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London and of the Imperial Order of Japan, and was awarded the Grand Cross for Humanitarian Merit by the Institution of the same name in Barcelona. In addition to his Chillida-Leku Museum in Hernani, his work is represented in museums and collections around the world, such as the Guggenheim in Bilbao, the MoMA in New York, the Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.