The Serra sculpture, he said, is going to "a major Midwestern museum," which he declined to identify.
The exhibited Serra sculptures were so large that the caretaker's flat adjoining the gallery was demolished to make room for them.
The city of Paris already boasts four Serra sculptures.
Like, remember Tilted Arc, the Serra sculpture at Federal Plaza?
Compared to more traditional sculptures, which are objects we can possess, a Serra sculpture possesses us.
Last October, a worker lost a leg while dismantling a 16-ton Serra sculpture at the Castelli Gallery.
Next to the Serra sculpture, a sculpture park was called for.
In October 1989, another worker lost a leg while dismantling a 16-ton Serra sculpture at the Leo Castelli Gallery.
The current record auction price for a Serra sculpture was paid at Sotheby's in 2008, where 12-4-8, a 1983 work consisting of three steel plates, sold for $1.65 million.
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