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Richard Serra
Inverted House of Cards1969

Not on view
Large-scale sculpture of four oxidized steel plates arranged in a zigzag configuration, leaning against each other on a parquet floor, surfaces heavily rusted in shades of brown and orange

Richard Serra, Inverted House of Cards, 1969, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Edythe and Eli L. Broad, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Richard Serra
United States, 1938-2024
Title
Inverted House of Cards
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1969
Medium
Steel
Dimensions
Installation: 49 × 88 1/2 × 88 1/2 in. (124.46 × 224.79 × 224.79 cm) a-d): 49 × 49 × 1 1/2 in. (124.46 × 124.46 × 3.81 cm) each
Credit Line
Gift of Edythe and Eli L. Broad
Accession Number
M.2001.64a-d
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
Contemporary Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Zelevansky, Lynn, V. L. Hillings, M. Peternák, B. LaBelle, P. Frank, I. Katzenstein, A. Le Blanc. Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s-70s. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2004.
Copyright
© Richard Serra / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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