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RICHARD SERRA (B. 1939)
Lot 52 PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA

RICHARD SERRA (B. 1939)

Riser

Closed25 July 2014

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RICHARD SERRA (B. 1939)
Riser
signed, dated and numbered '25/50 R Serra 2011' in pencil (on the reverse)
etching on Hahnemuhle copperplate paper
29¾ x 15½ in. (75.6 x 39.4 cm.)
Executed in 2011. Published by Gemini, G.E.L., Los Angeles, with their inkstamp on the reverse. The work is number twenty-five from the edition of fifty.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

'The weight of a drawing derives not only from the number of layer of paintstick but mainly from the particular shape of the drawing. It is obvious - from Mantegna's Christ to Cezanne's apples - that shapes imply weight, mass and volume. A square carries more weight - gravitationally - than a rectangle: a trapezoid more than a diamond. A triangle is a light, very quick shape. (...) In the process of covering a canvas with paintstick, moving from the inside out, I often find the solution needed in terms of weight and space of the drawing in relation to the total field of the wall and the total volume of the space'

(Richard Serra, as quoted in S. von B.-W., Richard Serra Prints Catalogue Raisonne 1972 - 1999, p. 20)