
Art Institute of Chicago
Rough Chant III – Homage to Luis Martín Santos (Abesti gogorra III – Homenaje a Luis Martín Santos)
Eduardo Chillida · 1964
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist; sold through Galerie Maeght, Paris, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Aug. 4, 1967.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Galerie Maeght, Chillida, Apr. 28, 1964, cat. 2, as Abesti Gogora III.
- Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, Fondation Maeght, Inauguration de la Fondation Maeght, July 28, 1964–undetermined closing date, not in cat.
- Duisburg, Germany, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Chillida, May 7–June 19, 1966, cat. 27, as Abesti Gogora III.
- Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Eduardo Chillida Retrospective, Oct. 4–Nov. 20, 1966, cat. 29, as Abesti Gogora III.
- Utica, NY, Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Chillida, Jan. 15–Feb. 12, 1967, cat. 10; Saint Louis Art Museum, Mar. 9–Apr. 15, 1967, as Abesti Gogora III.
- Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Sculpture - A Generation of Innovation, June 23–Aug. 27, 1967, no cat. no.
- San Diego Museum of Art, Eduardo Chillida: Convergence, Aug. 2, 2025–Feb. 8, 2026, cat. 23.
Literature
Published references
- Carola Giedon-Welcker, Derrière le Miroir 143: Chillida, exh. cat. (Paris: Maeght Éditeur, 1964), 16, 18, cat. 2, as Abesti Gogora III.
- Raymond Cogniat, “La fondation maeght new art centre on the côte d ́azur” Studio
- International (1964): 200 (ill.), as Abesti gogora.
- Pierre Volboudt, Espace sacré, espace profane, no. 24 (December 1964): 32 (ill.), as Abesti gogora III.
- André Malraux and François Wehrlin, Derrière le Miroir 155: Fondation Maeght: Inauguration, exh. cat. (Paris: Maeght Éditeur, 1965), 24-25 (ill.), as Abesti Gogora III.
- Charles S. Spencer, “Eduardo Chillida, Sculptor of Space” Studio International 169, no. 866 (June 1965): 255 (ill.), as Wood sculpture in Paris exhibition 1964.
- Carola Giedon-Welcker, “Chillida” Quadrum: Revue internationale d'art moderne XX (1966): 54 (ill.), as Abesti Gogorá n° 3. (Chant Violent), 1962-1964.
- Gerhard Handler, Chillida, exh. cat. (Duisburg: Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, 1966), n.p., cat. 27 (ill.), as Abesti Gogora III.
- James Johnson Sweeney, Eduardo Chillida, exh. cat. (Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1966), n.p. (ill., install), 18, 27, cat. 29, as ABESTI GOGORA III.
- Juan Daniel Fullaondo, “Personalidad de Eduardo Chillida” Nueva Forma 21 (1967): 55, reproduced in Chillida. Presentación a cargo de Juan Daniel Fullaondo (Madrid: Editorial Alfaguara, 1968), 14, no. 4, 15 (ill.), as Abesti Gogora III.
- Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Chillida, exh. cat. (Utica: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1967), n.p., cat. 10, as Abesti Gogora III.
- Juan Daniel Fullaondo, Ángel Crespo, Jorge de Oteiza, and Pilar Gómez Bedate, Primera Exposición Forma Nueva, exh. cat. (Madrid: Forma Nueva El Inmueble, 1967), 33.
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