Aromas. 2000.
Book comprising 10 graphic sheets: Eduardo Chillida's illustrated reflections with 5 Etchings, 3 woodcuts and 2 silkscreen prints with embossing print and with text sheets, some of them with silkscreens after Chillida's drawings, title leaf and printer's note. Loose sheets in orig half calf boards with two insert paper reliefs. In plexiglass slipcase and wooden box. Complete.
Van der Koelen 00005-00014. Each print signed, numbered and inscribed with the artist's signet. Once more signed in printer's note and with printed copy numbers. One of 120 Greek numbered copies, from a total edition of 160 copies. On heavy Eskulan wove paper. Up to 29 x 25.3 cm (11.4 x 9.9 in). Sheet: 53,5 x 42,5 cm (21 x 16,7 in).
Released by Éditions Édouard Weiss, Paris. Printd by Taller Hatz, San Sebastián. Published on occasion of the artist's 76th birthday. [AR].
• The complete set in very good condition.
• In "Aromas", a lovely composed book, Eduardo Chillida combines his graphic prints with his very own reflections on art and life, adding quotes from, among others, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Octavio Paz, Rafael Alberti, Voltaire and Albert Einstein.
• The play with abstract forms, the reduction to black and the striking material properties make for the strong appeal of his paper works.
• His graphic works can be found in many international museums, among them the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, or the Museum Folkwang, Essen.
• In 2000 the artist received the Piepenbrock Sculpting Award and the monumental iron sculpture "Berlin" in front of the Federal Chancellery was unveiled.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Nothelfer, Berlin.
Private collection Northern Germany.

"Secrecy ist the most beatiful thing we can experience."
Albert Einstein, quoted from this book by Eduardo Chillida.