US sculptor Richard Serra, the ‘poet of iron’, dies aged 85

Richard Serra created ‘Slat’, a 1984 steel sculpture, in Paris (AP)

American artist and sculptor Richard Serra has died at his home in Long Island, New York, at the age of 85.

Considered one of his generation’s greatest sculptors, the San Francisco native originally studied painting at Yale University but turned to sculpting in the 1960s, inspired by trips to Europe.