ID 1515022
Lot 51 | Bridget Louise Riley. Untitled (Work Drawing)
Estimate value
€ 50 000 – 70 000
1931 London
Title: Untitled (Work Drawing).
Date: 1964/65.
Technique: Gouache and drawing on cardboard G-W No. I.
Measurement: 71.5 x 54.5cm.
Notation: Inscribed upper right: Bridget Riley. Additionally inscribed verso: James Fitzsimmons.
This work is a printing plate for a lithograph. It was used for the cover of Art International, Vol. IX, 1965 (Fig. 1). The motif was also selected for the exhibition poster of the Richard Feigen Gallery, New York, where Bridget Riley had an exhibition in 1965 (Fig. 2).
We thank the Bridget Riley Archive, London, for their kind scholarly advice and art historical contextualization of the work. As it is a printing plate, it will not be assigned an archive number.
Provenance:
- James Fitzsimmons, New York
- Hans-Jürgen Müller, Stuttgart
- Private Collection, Northern Germany
- Characteristic, high-contrast gouache by the great British Op Art artist
- Her black and white line paintings from the 1960s are among her most sought-after works
- Riley achieved international recognition in 1965 through her participation in the groundbreaking exhibition "The Responsive Eye" at MoMA in New York.
| Artist: | Bridget Riley (1931) |
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| Auction house category: | Post War |
| Artist: | Bridget Riley (1931) |
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| Auction house category: | Post War |
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