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Richard Serra

SELECTED WORKS
Circuit
1972
Three-color lithograph on Amgoumois handmade paper

Image/paper size: 29 1/2 x 42 1/8 inches (74.9 x 107 cm)
Edition of 50, GEL III/III
Signed in pencil and inscribed Gemini II on verso
(Inventory #35478)

Weight and Measure
1993
Etching with aquatint

Edition of 45
Image/paper size: 67 1/2 x 31 1/2 inches (171.5 x 80 cm)
Frame size: 72 7/8 x 35 5/8 x 2 3/8 inches (185.1 x 90.5 x 6 cm)
Signed ‘R Serra’ and dated upper right, numbered upper left in graphite
(Inventory #33705)

Finkl Forge II
1996
One-color etching on Lana Lanaquarelle Watercolor paper

Edition of 33
Image/paper size: 47 3/8 x 47 3/8 inches (120.3 x 120.3 cm)
Frame size: 52 3/4 x 52 1/4 inches (134 x 132.7 cm)
Signed, dated, and numbered lower left in graphite
(Inventory #33607)

WM III
1996
Etching with aquatint on Watson handmade paper in two parts

Edition of 28
Paper size:  35 x 32 inches each  (88.9 x 81.3 cm each)
Overall size:  70 x 32 inches  (177.8 x 81.3 cm)
Frame size:  73 x 35 1/2 inches  (185.4 x 90.2 cm)
Signed and numbered on reverse
(Inventory #27648)

Bilbao 1
2005
Etching on Hahnemühle Copperplate bright white paper

Image size: 17 3/4 x 23 1/4 inches (45.1 x 59.7 cm)
Paper size: 22 7/8 x 27 3/8 inches (57.8 x 69.9 cm)
Edition of 35
Signed and numbered
(Inventory #35935)

Paths and Edges #7
2007
One color etching on Mohachi paper

Edition of 60
Image/paper size: 20 1/4 x 29 inches (51.4 x 73.7 cm)
Signed, numbered and dated on reverse
(Inventory #31578)

Reversal IX
2015
Hand-applied Paintstik and silica on two sheets of handmade paper

Overall size: 42 x 15 inches (106.7 x 38.1 cm)
Edition of 50
Signed and numbered on verso
(Inventory #27386)

Horizontal Reversal VII
2017
Hand-applied Paintstik and silica on two sheets of handmade paper

Edition of 50
Overall size: 15 x 42 inches (38.1 x 106.7 cm)
Signed, numbered, and dated on reverse on right panel
(Inventory #31898)

Casablanca #4
2022
Hand-applied oil stick and silica on handmade paper

Paper size: 60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
Framed: 62 1/2 x 62 1/2 inches (158.8 x 158.8 cm)
Edition of 26
Signed and numbered in graphite
(Inventory #34450)

Notebook Drawing VI
2023
One-color etching

24 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches (62.2 x 69.9 cm)
Edition of 40
Artist’s approval screenprinted verso
(Inventory #36276)

Hitchcock III
2024
3-color oil stick and silica

Richard Serra
Hitchcock III, 2024
3-color oil stick and silica
40 x 34 inches (101.6 x 86.4 cm)
Edition of 56
(Inventory #36884)

Additional Information

Richard Serra was born in 1939 in San Francisco. While working in steel mills to support himself, Serra attended the University of California at Berkeley and Santa Barbara from 1957 to 1961, receiving a BA in English literature. He then studied as a painter at Yale University, New Haven, from 1961 to 1964, completing his BFA and MFA there. While at Yale, Serra worked with Josef Albers on his book The Interaction of Color (1963). During the early 1960s, he came into contact with Philip Guston, Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, and Frank Stella. In 1964 and 1965 Serra received a Yale Traveling Fellowship and traveled to Paris, where he frequently visited the reconstruction of Constantin Brancusi’s studio at the Musée National d’Art Moderne. He spent much of the following year in Florence on a Fulbright grant and traveled throughout southern Europe and northern Africa. The young artist was given his first solo exhibition at Galleria La Salita, Rome, in 1966. Later that year, he moved to New York where his circle of friends included Carl Andre, Walter De Maria, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, and Robert Smithson.

In 1966 Serra made his first sculptures out of nontraditional materials such as fiberglass and rubber. From 1968 to 1970 he executed a series of Splash pieces, in which molten lead was splashed or cast into the junctures between floor and wall. Serra had his first solo exhibition in the United States at the Leo Castelli Warehouse, New York. By 1969 he had begun the Prop pieces, whose parts are not welded together or otherwise attached but are balanced solely by forces of weight and gravity. That year, Serra was included in Nine Young Artists: Theodoron Awards at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. He produced the first of his numerous short films in 1968 and in the early 1970s experimented with video. The Pasadena Art Museum organized a solo exhibition of Serra’s work in 1970, and in the same year he received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship. That year, he helped Smithson execute Spiral Jetty at the Great Salt Lake in Utah; Serra, however, was less intrigued by the vast American landscape than by urban sites, and in 1970 he installed a piece on a dead-end street in the Bronx. He received the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture in 1975 and traveled to Spain to study Mozarabic architecture in 1982.

Serra was honored with solo exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Tübingen, Germany, in 1978; the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, in 1984; the Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany, in 1985; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1986. The 1990s saw further honors for Serra’s work: a retrospective of his drawings at the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht; the Wilhelm Lehmbruck prize for sculpture in Duisburg in 1991; and the following year, a retrospective at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. In 1993 Serra was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1994 he was awarded the Praemium Imperiale by the Japan Art Association and an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the California College of the Arts, Oakland. Serra has continued to exhibit in both group and solo shows in such venues as Leo Castelli Gallery and Gagosian Gallery, New York. He continues to produce large-scale steel structures for sites throughout the world, and has become particularly renowned for his monumental arcs, spirals, and ellipses, which engage the viewer in an altered experience of space. From 1997 to 1998 his Torqued Ellipses (1997) were exhibited at and acquired by the Dia Center for the Arts, New York. In 2005 eight major works by Serra were installed permanently at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and in 2007 the Museum of Modern Art in New York mounted a major retrospective of his work.

International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Fair Fall 2021 Online Edition

October 15, 2021
- October 31, 2021

International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Fair Spring 2021 Online Edition

May 14, 2021
- May 28, 2021

Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), The Art Show 2020

February 26, 2020
- March 1, 2020

International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Fine Art Print Fair, New York 2019

October 23, 2019
- October 27, 2019

Richard Serra: 1985-1996

January 5, 2019
- February 9, 2019

International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Fine Art Print Fair, New York 2018

October 24, 2018
- October 28, 2018

Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), The Art Show 2018

February 27, 2018
- March 4, 2018

Latitudes

January 6, 2018
- February 10, 2018

Featuring works by Peter Downsbrough, Bronlyn Jones, Julian Opie, and Richard Serra

Darkling

March 18, 2017
- April 22, 2017

Featuring works by Josef Albers, Peter Downsbrough, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Allan McCollum, and Richard Serra

Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) Art Show 2017

March 1, 2017
- March 5, 2017

 

 

 

International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Art Fair, New York 2016

November 3, 2016
- November 6, 2016

Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) Art Show 2016

March 2, 2016
- March 6, 2016




International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Art Fair, New York 2015

November 4, 2015
- November 8, 2015

One Wall, One Work:
Richard Serra

May 2, 2015
- June 6, 2015
Michael Mazur
Untitled
1959
Ink on paper with torn edges
Image/paper size:  23 x 29 inches  (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Frame size:  27 x 33 inches  (68.6 x 83.8 cm)
Signed and dated lower right
(Inventory #27043)

 

International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Art Fair, New York 2014

November 5, 2014
- November 9, 2014

International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Art Fair, New York 2013

November 6, 2013
- November 10, 2013

Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) Art Show 2013

March 5, 2013
- March 10, 2013

Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) Art Show 2012

March 7, 2012
- March 11, 2012

Morphologies

March 19, 2011
- April 26, 2011

Featuring works by Tara Donovan, Charles LeDray, Brice Marden, Julian Opie, Bill Thompson, and Ursula von Rydingsvard

Richard Serra

December 11, 2010
- February 1, 2011

International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA)
Art Show 2010

November 4, 2010
- November 7, 2010

Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) Art Show 2010

March 3, 2010
- March 7, 2010