Lurra G25

Details

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

Provenance

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.

Exhibited

Zurich, Galerie Maeght Lelong, Chillida -Sculptures de terre, 1985-1986.
Frankfurt, Galerie Herbert Meyer-Ellinger, Eduardo Chillida - Erdskulpturen, Collagen, Zeichnungen, Druckgrafik, 1986 (illustrated, p. 4).
Vienna, Galeries Ulysses, Eduardo Chillida - Skulpturen, Collagen, Zeichnungen, 1987 (illustrated, p. 47).
Bilbao, Galería Colón XVI, Chillida, 2003 (illustrated, p. 47).

Special Notice

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Lot Essay

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).

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