Sketch #1 - #7

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RICHARD SERRA (B. 1939)
Sketch #1 - #7
signed, dated and numbered 'A.P. 7/7 R. Serra 80', 'A.P. 7/9 R. Serra 80', 'A.P. Serra 80', 'A.P. R. Serra 80', 'A.P. R. Serra 80', 'A.P. R. Serra 80', and 'A.P. 7/9 R. Serra 80' (respectively) in pencil (in the lower margin)
the complete set of seven lithographs on Arches Cover paper and on John Koller HMP #112 paper
28 x 22 in. (71.1 x 55.9 cm.)
Executed in 1981. Published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, with their blindstamps and inkstamp on the reverse. This work is number seven of seven, nine, or eleven artist's proofs respectively, the edition was fifty. (7)

Literature

S. von B.-W., Richard Serra Prints Catalogue Raisonne 1972 - 1999, Richter Verlag, Düseldorf, 1999, pp. 110-111, no. 12-18 (another example from the edition illustrated in black and white).
Gemini Publication Sequence Number 961 - 967.

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Lot Essay

'The 1981 Sketches were still bound to the sculptural works. These lithographs were derived from a series of drawings Serra made upon the completion of the sculpture TWU in the spring of 1980. Serra wrote: 'After the work was erected, I began to draw from it. Drawing has always been a method for me to bring sculpture to definition, i.e. to understand the work in totality after its completion'
(R. Hoppe-Sailer, Richard Serra: Das druckgraphische Werk, Prints - a catalogue raissoné: 1972-1988, Galerie für Film, Foto, Neue Konkrete Kunst und Video, Bochum, Germany, 1988, p. 19.)

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