Eduardo Chillida

EDUARDO CHILLIDA JUANTEGUI (San Sebastian, 1924 - 2002).
"San Juan de la Cruz".
Artika, Chillida-Leku Museum, Planeta, 2007. Copy 714/988.
With life-size reproductions of 32 drawings and gravitations of his graphic work.
Iron case.
Presents marks of use, wear and some lateral damage to the cover.
Measurements: 39 x 31 x 4 cm (book); 50 x 39 x 18 cm (box).
It is not surprising that the "Spiritual Canticle" by San Juan de la Cruz was one of Chillida's bedside books, given that philosophy, spirituality and mysticism fill his work. This volume brings together two of the Basque artist's great passions: the mystical poems of St. John of the Cross and art. An unrepeatable jewel that blends the two in perfect harmony, combining poetry with the reproduction of 32 drawings and gravitations by Chillida, accompanied by 16 handwritten, intimate and personal quotations on art and spirituality.
Chillida trained in Madrid and Paris, and held his first exhibition in the French capital in 1950. Throughout his life he received numerous prizes and awards, including the Carnegie Prize, the Rembrandt Prize, the Wolf Foundation Prize for the Arts and the Prince of Asturias Prize for the Arts. He was also an academician of San Fernando, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Honorary 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, he is represented in museums and collections all over 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.