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Richard Serra — Dealer's Choice
Richard Serra — Dealer's Choice
Richard Serra

Dealer's Choice

Dealer's Choice exemplifies Richard Serra's masterful command of the etching medium, a process demanding both technical precision and artistic vision. Created in 1996, this work presents Serra's characteristic exploration of line, form, and spatial relationships translated into the intimate scale of paper. The composition demonstrates the artist's ability to generate complexity and visual tension through seemingly economical means, with marks that suggest movement and weight despite the work's modest dimensions. The deep blacks and subtle tonal variations achieved through Serra's etching technique create a sense of dimensionality that invites sustained contemplation, rewarding close viewing with revelations of the artist's deliberate hand. This edition example, number 78 from a limited series, represents a significant opportunity to acquire a signed work by one of the most consequential sculptors and printmakers of the late twentieth century. Serra's investigations into the properties of materials and perception extend naturally into his prints, where the same rigorous thinking that informs his monumental steel sculptures manifests in intimate works of considerable intellectual and aesthetic power. For collectors seeking substantive works by a canonical contemporary artist, Dealer's Choice offers both the authority of Serra's signature achievement and the accessibility of the print medium.

Medium
Richard Serra, Dealer's Choice, (CR112), 1996, Signed, Etching, Edition 78, 16 3/4" x 18" Sheet Size, 12 7/8" × 14 5/8" Image Size

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Richard Serra, Dealer's Choice

Dealer's Choice exemplifies Richard Serra's masterful command of the etching medium, a process demanding both technical precision and artistic vision. Created in 1996, this work presents Serra's characteristic exploration of line, form, and spatial relationships translated into the intimate scale of paper. The composition demonstrates the artist's ability to generate complexity and visual tension through seemingly economical means, with marks that suggest movement and weight despite the work's modest dimensions. The deep blacks and subtle tonal variations achieved through Serra's etching technique create a sense of dimensionality that invites sustained contemplation, rewarding close viewing with revelations of the artist's deliberate hand. This edition example, number 78 from a limited series, represents a significant opportunity to acquire a signed work by one of the most consequential sculptors and printmakers of the late twentieth century. Serra's investigations into the properties of materials and perception extend naturally into his prints, where the same rigorous thinking that informs his monumental steel sculptures manifests in intimate works of considerable intellectual and aesthetic power. For collectors seeking substantive works by a canonical contemporary artist, Dealer's Choice offers both the authority of Serra's signature achievement and the accessibility of the print medium.

Medium
Richard Serra, Dealer's Choice, (CR112), 1996, Signed, Etching, Edition 78, 16 3/4" x 18" Sheet Size, 12 7/8" × 14 5/8" Image Size
Seen at
Georgetown Frame Shoppe, Washington, D.C., United States

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Alex Capecelatro, Brian Stevens, Jonathan Murray