Richard Serra

Sculptor Richard Serra at Kaiser Steel Yard, Fontana, California in 1969 Photograph: Malcolm Lubliner/Corbis

March 11 1989: Tilted Arc, a 12-foot-high, curving, inclined wall of rusting steel in Federal Plaza, New York. The removal of the controversial sculpture, which many considered an eyesore, sparked accusations of censorship from New York's art community Photograph: Mario Cabrera/AP

June 1 1995: Serra's 55ft-high, free-standing sculpture, Fulcrum, at the Broadgate office and retail estate in London Photograph: Tom Stoddart/Getty

November 16 1997: Model for a national Holocaust memorial submitted to Germany by Serra and US architect Peter Eisenman, shown in Berlin. The proposal called for a 'field' of 4,000 concrete pillars. Serra withdrew from the project in 1998 Photograph: Jan Bauer/AP

Richard Serra sketches during a lecture in Hamburg's art museum, Kunsthalle, in 1998 Photograph: Reuters

1998: A visitor contemplates one of Serra's massive steel sculptures at the Torqued Ellipses exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Photograph: Amy Etra/Getty

June 10 2001: Richard Serra holds the Golden Lion award at the 49th Venice Arts Biennale. Serra received the award for his lifetime work Photograph: Andrea Merola/EPA

November 15 2004: A woman walks past Serra's Cutting Device: Base Plate-Measure at the Museum of Modern Art in New York Photograph: Zack Seckler/AP

June 3 2005: Visitors walk between Serra's sculptures at the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain. The installation, The Matter of Time, was based on Serra's theories of torqued ellipses Photograph: Vincent West/Reuters

June 3 2005: Richard Serra at the Guggenheim in Bilbao Photograph: Rafa Rivas/Getty

June 7 2005: A man walks past a steel sculpture at the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain Photograph: Ander Gillenea/AP

February 28 2006: A visitor looks at a drawing by Richard Serra at the Whitney Biennial, New York Photograph: Seth Wenig/Reuters

View of a 38-tonne steel sculpture at an exhibition in the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid. The museum lost the sculpture in 2006 Photograph: AP

June 23 2006: A woman walks past the New Union (2003) sculpture, on display in Bilbao, Spain. Bilbao's Museum of Fine Arts received the sculpture from an unknown collector Photograph: Jose Simal/EPA

April 4 2007: Richard Serra supervising the installation of his work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York Photograph: Kristin Callahan/Rex Features

May 29 2007: One of the works in the exhibition, Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York Photograph: Thos Robinson/Getty

May 29 2007: A visitor at the Serra retrospective in New York, walks past an artwork entitled Belts Photograph: Mary Altaffer/AP

May 29 2007: Equal (Corner Prop Piece), at the Richard Serra retrospective, Museum of Modern Art , New York Photograph: Mary Altaffer/AP

July 13 2007: A young girl wanders through Richard Serra's retrospective at Moma in New York Photograph: James Leynse/Corbis

May 4 2008: Richard Serra poses beside one of his five massive walls of steel, each piece weighing 75 tonnes, in Paris Photograph: Olivier Laban-Mattei/Getty

Visitors walk around Richard Serra's installation, Promenade, at the Grand Palais in Paris Photograph: Horacio Villalobos/Corbis

May 6 2008: Clara-Clara, a 1983 steel work initially designed by Serra for the Tuileries Garden, Paris Photograph: Remy Gabalda/AP

June 12 2008: A visitor looks at a series of Serra artworks entitled Forged Drawing, at the Drawings - Work Comes Out of Work exhibition, at the Kunsthaus in Bregenz, Austria Photograph: Regina Kuehne/EPA