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Homage to ChillidaEduardo Chillida had his first exhibition in Paris in 1950.
Since then, retrospective exhibitions have been held in Houston, Berlin, Madrid, Caracas, London, and Palermo, as well as at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
Currently, his work has entered the collections of over thirty museums around the world.
His sculptures have been installed facing the sea in San Sebastian, on a mountain in Japan, and in Washington, Paris, Munster, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Guernica, and Berlin.
During the course of his life, Chillida received numerous art awards, including the Prize of the Venice Biennale.
He titled many of his works homenajes-homages or tributes, and dedicated them to different artists with whom he had some connection; for example, Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Twombly, and Joan Miró.
Chillida also dedicated works to a long list of writers, philosophers and friends as a sign of his affection, respect, and admiration.
In all, these homages constitute more than eighty sculptures, 58 prints, and two drawings.
The first explicit tribute is to Vivaldi, in his Homage to Vivaldi I from 1951.
Two of his drawings are dedicated to his favorite poet, Saint John of the Cross, and in their way, represent graphic transcriptions of certain verses by the Spanish mystic.
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