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LONG, RICHARD

* 2.6.1945 Bristol

Richard Long was born in Bristol in 1945, where he first studied at the West of England College of Art and then from 1966 attended St. Martin's School of Art, London, for two years. At the beginning of his career, the young Richard Long was mainly concerned with sculpture. However, he soon found the usual dimensions too limiting, whereupon he found the solution outside in nature. Thus, in his final thesis, he set out to find an expanded definition of the genre of sculpture, which led him to his lyrical Land Art works. "A Line Made by Walking" is the title of his first work, in which Richard Long traced a line in a meadow with his steps and captured the pattern photographically. A subtle, minimal, and ephemeral intervention in nature. Through its quiet gentleness and restraint, his art sets itself apart from the often monumental-heroic landscape transformations of his US-American artist colleagues.

Richard Long chooses the most diverse places in the world to find inspiration for his works. He finds these places through his epic wanderings, mainly in rocky mountains or deserts in Mexico, the Andes, India, the Himalayas, Japan, Australia and Africa. When he has found a suitable place, he brings stones or wood together and uses them to draw lines, or spiral, labyrinth, cross, ellipse or circle shapes on the ground. As a "romantic wanderer", he is always careful not to damage the surroundings, but to expand and reinterpret them. Through photography, artist's books, drawings, texts, maps, and diagrams, he records his works at the end. Richard Long lives and works in Bristol.


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Lot 3476* - A201 PostWar & Contemporary - Thursday 30 June 2022, 05.00 PM

RICHARD LONG

(Bristol 1945–lives and works in Bristol)
Small circle of flint. 1984.
32 stones, placed in a circle.
Diameter 86 cm.

CHF 25 000 / 35 000 | (€ 25 770 / 36 080)

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Lot 3514 - A185 PostWar & Contemporary - Saturday 30 June 2018, 02.00 PM

RICHARD LONG

(Bristol 1945–lives and works in Bristol)
Untitled. 2010.
Oil on found wood.
Signed and dated on the reverse: Richard Long 2010.
12 x 96 cm.

CHF 5 000 / 6 000 | (€ 5 150 / 6 190)

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Lot 3705 - Z34 Prints & Multiples - Saturday 22 June 2013, 02.00 PM

RICHARD LONG

(Bristol 1945–lives and works in Bristol)
Linea de Sonido. 1990.
Schriftgrafik. 5/45. Unten mittig signiert: Richard Long. Blattmass 152 x 80 cm auf festem Vélin. Gerahmt.

CHF 700 / 900 | (€ 720 / 930)

Sold for CHF 840 (including buyer’s premium)
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Lot 7082 - ibid145 Prints & Multiples - online only - Wednesday 26 June 2024, 02.00 PM

RICHARD LONG

(Bristol 1945–lives and works in Bristol)
Untitled. 1993.
Offset-Lithograph. 133/150. 75 53

CHF 300 / 500 | (€ 310 / 520)

Sold for CHF 400 (including buyer’s premium)
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