Richard Serra
American · 1939–2024 · Painter, Printmaker
Richard Serra was an American artist known for his large-scale abstract sculptures made for site-specific landscape, urban, and architectural settings, and whose work has been… (Wikipedia)
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Record prices
SiouxPhillips · £885,000≈ $1,125,189≈ €989,612Sign up to see
No. 1Ketterer Kunst · €903,000≈ $1,044,500≈ £779,361Sign up to see
Elevational Weights, Vertical MassPhillips · £447,000≈ $548,871≈ €502,399Sign up to see
Richard Serra’s highest prices recorded at auction, ranked in US dollars at each sale-date exchange rate and shown in the currency of the sale (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it).
Coming up at auction
6 in forthcoming sales · bid with the house
Listed from the auction houses’ own websites; estimates are the houses’ own, not results.
Price trend
2 lot(s) offered at auction whose result the house did not publish are listed under “Also offered” on the results tab and excluded from these statistics.
By medium
| Medium | Offered | Sold | Sell-through | Average | Median | High |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paintings | 2 | 2 | 100% | $22.5kSign up | $22.5kSign up | $33.5kSign up |
| Oil | 2 | 2 | 100% | $22.5kSign up | $22.5kSign up | $33.5kSign up |
| Works on paper | 18 | 16 | 89% | $230kSign up | $177kSign up | $1.1MSign up |
| Drawing | 6 | 6 | 100% | $74kSign up | $9.1kSign up | $219kSign up |
| Prints & multiples | 247 | 240 | 97% | $11.9kSign up | $9.4kSign up | $89.2kSign up |
| Etching | 134 | 129 | 96% | $12.9kSign up | $10.8kSign up | $89.2kSign up |
| Aquatint | 7 | 7 | 100% | $7.3kSign up | $3.8kSign up | $22.6kSign up |
| Lithograph | 42 | 40 | 95% | $6.8kSign up | $5.8kSign up | $27.5kSign up |
| Screenprint | 42 | 42 | 100% | $15.9kSign up | $15.1kSign up | $40kSign up |
| Woodcut / linocut | 3 | 3 | 100% | $20kSign up | $16.3kSign up | $28.2kSign up |
| Print (other) | 19 | 19 | 100% | $7.4kSign up | $3.4kSign up | $30kSign up |
| Other | 8 | 8 | 100% | $179kSign up | $17.3kSign up | $1MSign up |
Medium classes are derived from the medium text as published by each house; “Other” includes lots whose medium wasn’t stated.
By year
| Year | Offered | Sold | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 16 | 14 | $17kSign up |
| 2025 | 26 | 25 | $10.8kSign up |
| 2024 | 26 | 24 | $8.5kSign up |
| 2023 | 24 | 23 | $7kSign up |
| 2022 | 14 | 13 | $5.1kSign up |
| 2021 | 30 | 29 | $10.9kSign up |
| 2020 | 7 | 7 | $7.4kSign up |
| 2019 | 17 | 17 | $13.8kSign up |
| 2018 | 15 | 14 | $6.8kSign up |
| 2017 | 21 | 21 | $11.3kSign up |
| 2016 | 10 | 10 | $14.4kSign up |
| 2015 | 16 | 16 | $4.6kSign up |
| 2014 | 17 | 17 | $11.9kSign up |
| 2013 | 14 | 14 | $15.6kSign up |
| 2012 | 4 | 4 | $7.8kSign up |
| 2011 | 4 | 4 | $13.2kSign up |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 | $15.3kSign up |
| 2009 | 3 | 3 | $5.8kSign up |
| 2008 | 2 | 2 | $5.9kSign up |
| 2007 | 4 | 4 | $18.4kSign up |
| 2006 | 2 | 2 | $19.9kSign up |
| 2003 | 1 | 1 | $2.7kSign up |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | $5.2kSign up |