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Richard Serra prefers to use steel for his sculptures. He narrows that down and reports that rolled Cor-Ten steel with an evenly rusted surface is his favorite medium. The artist has experimented in other mediums, including film, but is best noted for his large-scale steel structures. Shop a selection of Richard Serra pieces from some of the world’s top art dealers on 1stDibs.
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Richard Serra 'Stop B S' Signed, Limited Edition Print
By Richard Serra
Located in San Rafael, CA
Richard Serra (American, B. 1938)
Stop B S (G. 2024), 2004.
From the portfolio 'Artists Coming Together'
Lithograph on wove paper
Signed in pencil and numbered 127/250 (there were al...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Backstop I
By Richard Serra
Located in Houston, TX
Richard Serra
Backstop I, 2021
1-color etching and Paintstik
60 x 64 in (152.4 x 162.6 cm)
62 1/2 x 66 1/2 in (15778.5 x 16794.5 cm) Framed
Edition of 50
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Tilted Arc Defense Fund (Hand signed by Richard Serra from his own collection)
By Richard Serra
Located in New York, NY
Richard Serra
Historic Tilted Arc Defense Fund (Hand signed by Richard Serra), 1985
Offset lithograph poster from the artist's private collection
Boldly signed in black marker on the...
Category
1980s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset
STILL FROM HAND CATCHING LEAD by Richard Serra (image of hand)
By Richard Serra
Located in New York, NY
Richard Serra (1939 - 2024) was one of the most important artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Serra experimented with sculpture, printmaking and video in pursuit of his investiga...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Torqued Spirals, Toruses and Spheres poster 2001, Hand Signed by Richard Serra
By Richard Serra
Located in New York, NY
Richard Serra
Torqued Spirals, Toruses and Spheres, 2001
Offset lithograph poster (Hand signed by Richard Serra)
Boldly signed in black marker on the front
28 × 20 inches
Unframed
This poster was published on the occasion of Serra's October 2001 exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery - one month after 9/11; The posters were sold for the benefit of the Twin Towers Fund and a certain quantity were hand signed by the artist.
Richard Serra Biography
Richard Serra was born in 1938 in San Francisco and lives and works in New York and the North Fork of Long Island. His first significant solo exhibition was held at the Leo Castelli Warehouse, New York, in 1969. His first solo museum exhibition took place at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1970. Serra has since participated in numerous international exhibitions, including documenta (1972, 1977, 1982, and 1987) in Kassel, Germany; the Venice Biennales of 1980, 1984, 2001, and 2013; and the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Annual and Biennial exhibitions of 1968, 1970, 1973, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1995, and 2006.
Solo exhibitions of Serra’s sculptural work have been held at numerous public institutions worldwide, including, among others, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1980; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, 1984; Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, 1985; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1986; Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, 1987; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, 1987; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 1988; Kunsthaus Zürich, 1990; CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, 1990; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 1992; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 1992; Dia Center for the Arts, New York, 1997; Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, 1997–1998; Trajan’s Market, Rome, 2000; Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, 2003; and Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples, 2004.
In 2005, The Matter of Time, a series of eight large-scale works by Serra from 1994 to 2005, was installed permanently at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and in 2007, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, presented the retrospective Richard Serra Sculpture...
Category
Early 2000s Minimalist Abstract Prints
Materials
Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset
Forged Rounds, Gagosian gallery exhibition poster, Hand signed by Richard Serra
By Richard Serra
Located in New York, NY
Richard Serra
Forged Rounds (hand signed), 2019
Offset lithograph poster (hand signed by Richard Serra)
26 × 40 inches
Boldly signed in black marker on the front by Richard Serra
Unframed
Acquired from Gagosian Gallery, New York City
From Gagosian Gallery about Serra's Forged Rounds project:
Weight is a value for me—not that it is any more compelling than lightness, but I simply know more about weight than about lightness and therefore I have more to say about it, more to say about the balancing of weight, the diminishing of weight, the addition and subtraction of weight, the concentration of weight, the rigging of weight, the propping of weight, the placement of weight, the locking of weight, the psychological effects of weight, the disorientation of weight, the disequilibrium of weight, the rotation of weight, the movement of weight, the directionality of weight, the shape of weight.
—Richard Serra
Gagosian is pleased to present recent sculptures and drawings by Richard Serra.
At 980 Madison Avenue, a series of new diptych and triptych drawings...
Category
2010s Minimalist Abstract Prints
Materials
Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset