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Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002)
Lot 170 THE PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED LADY

Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002)

Lurra G25

Closed14 February 2013

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GBP 73,250

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Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002)
Lurra G25
incised with the artist's monogram (on the side)
terracotta
12¼ x 10½ x 8 5/8in. (31 x 26.5 x 22cm.)
Executed in 1984

Galería Maese Nicolás, León.
Private Collection, León.
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 23 October 2002, lot 123.
Galería Colón XVI, Bilbao.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2003.

Specialist note

This work is registered in the archives of the Museo Chillida-Leku, under no. 1984.042.



'Space must be conceived in terms of plastic volume, instead of being fixed with the help of lines onto the imaginary surface of the paper. I am unable to imagine it other than in three dimensions. That is the way form acquires its structure. Form springs spontaneously from the needs of the space that builds its dwelling like an animal in its shell. Just like this animal, I am also an architect of the void' (E. Chillida, quoted in Chillida 1948-1998, exh. cat., Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofiá, Madrid, 1998, p. 62).