Picture "Literature of Life - french version" (1997)
Picture "Literature of Life - french version" (1997)
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limited, 100 copies | numbered | signed | aquatint etching | framed | size 44 x 34 cm
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Picture "Literature of Life - french version" (1997)
This print is an original aquatint for the book "Literature or Life" by the Spanish author and Buchenwald survivor Jorge Semprún from 1997. This autobiographical work was published in Spanish, English, Hebrew and French - and a different print by Chillida was used for each version.
Original aquatint, 1997. edition: 100 copies and 12 H.C. and A.P. copies, numbered and signed. Motif size/sheet size 38 x 28 cm. Size in frame 44 x 34 cm as shown.
About Eduardo Chillida
1924-2002
Large-format original lithographs by Eduardo Chillida have become a treasure - they are so rare that connoisseurs covet them. Like no one before him, Chillida knows how to divide the painting space with a few, previously unseen stylistic elements and thus create a mood that oscillates between contemplative calm and creative restlessness. A real force field!
Internationally known for his oversized iron sculptures, Chillida has made a name for himself on the art market primarily as a graphic artist. He subtly translates his sculptural language, characterised by beam-like elements, into the two-dimensional. "The price spiral for these works is slowly but unmistakably turning upwards. ...Ambitious, large prints and, above all, the artist's works on paper have to be sought out," wrote the German business newspaper Handelsblatt in 2012.
Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from the representational depiction, which spread throughout the entire western and parts of the eastern world from around 1910 onwards in ever new stylistic variations. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, born in 1866, is considered the founder of abstract art. Other important artists of abstract art are K.S. Malewitsch, Piet Mondrian, and others.
The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.
Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy.