Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002)
Lot 30 THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002)

Untitled

Closed30 June 2010

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Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002)
Untitled
signed and with the artist's monogram 'Chillida' (centre left)
ink and hand-made paper collage with string
63 x 47¼in. (160 x 120cm.)
Executed in 1989

Galerie Lelong, Paris.
Anon. sale, Lempertz Cologne, 10 November 2000, lot 123.
Annely Juda Fine Art, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

This work is registered in the archives of the Museo Chillida-Leku, under number 1989.020.




'Sculpture is a function of space. I don't mean the space outside the form, which surrounds the volume and in which the forms live, but the space generated by the forms, which lives within them and which is more effective the more unoticeably it acts. You could compare it to the breath that swells and contracts forms that opens up their space - inaccessible to and hidden from the outside world to view. I do not see it as something abstract, but a reality as solid as the volume that envelops it.' (E. Chillida, 'Aphorismen' quoted in Chillida, exh. cat. Berlin 1991, p. 118)