Richard Serra Prints

Richard Serra: Catalogue Raisonné: Prints 1972–2024, published by Steidl, is a comprehensive 304-page clothbound monograph edited with text by Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe. Priced around $75 to $85, this bilingual English/German volume serves as the definitive 50-year survey of the artist's graphic output. It compiles roughly 480 illustrations detailing his extensive work with lithographs, screen prints, and etchings from his very first prints in 1972 until his passing in 2024.

Rather than treating the prints as mere preparatory sketches for his monumental steel sculptures, the book explores them as autonomous works of art that possess their own unique spatial and tactile grammar. A central focus of the monograph is Serra's innovative use of heavy oil-stick ink. This technique allowed him to create dense, rich black surfaces that absorb and reflect light, effectively translating the immense physical weight and scale of his physical sculptures onto paper.