Lot 230
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Richard Serra (b. 1939)
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Richard Serra (b. 1939)

Berlin

Details
Richard Serra (b. 1939)
Berlin
oilstick on paper
74½ x 80in. (189.2 x 203.3cm.)
Executed in 1982
Provenance
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (D-149).
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles.
Blum Helman Gallery, Inc., New York (#1682).
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
H. Janssen (ed.), Richard Serra. Drawings/Zeichnungen 1969-1990, exh. cat. Maastricht, Bonnefantenmuseum, no. 219 (incorrectly illustrated, p. 236).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Daniel Templon, Richard Serra: Sculpture, September -October 1984.
Saint Etienne, Musée d'art et d'industrie (on loan).
Special notice
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Lot Essay

"I never make drawings for sculptures. Drawing is a separate activity, an ongoing concern with its own concomitant and inherent problems. It is impossible, even by analogy, to represent a spatial language. Most depictions and illustrations are deceitful." (R. Serra, in: Richard Serra. Drawings/Zeichnungen 1969-1990, Maastricht, p. 12).

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