RICHARD SERRA (B. 1938)
RICHARD SERRA (B. 1938)
RICHARD SERRA (B. 1938)
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RICHARD SERRA (B. 1938)

Like Not Anything

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RICHARD SERRA (B. 1938)
Like Not Anything
paintstick on handmade paper
50 x 50 1⁄2 in. (127 x 128.3 cm.)
Executed in 2001.
Provenance
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2003
Special notice
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Lot Essay

"He has magnified the medium with immense black shapes that sit directly on the wall, their absorptive darkness forcing the space around them to expand or contract. Using black oil paintstick, he has exaggerated drawing’s physical surface, creating expanses of texture that have the rough tactility of bark, or massing dark, roiled spheres as thick as mud pies.”
—R. Smith, “Sketches from the Man of Steel,” The New York Times, 14 April 2011

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