Richard Serra died of pneumonia at the age of 85 in Orient, New York. Born on the west coast, in San Francisco, on November 2, 1938.

Son of a Jewish mother from Odessa, Ukraine, and a father of Spanish origin from Majorca. Serra has created sculptures for more than a hundred public places from Philadelphia to New York, Paris, Berlin and Bilbao, as well as São Paulo, Paris and Rio de Janeiro. The artist was still able to benefit during his lifetime from his entry into the history of art.