Bridget Riley

July 27.

Artist's Resale Right

Live auction begins on:

June 7, 01:00 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 GBP

Bid

28,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Jeffrey Archer

Bridget Riley

b. 1931

July 27.

signed Bridget Riley, titled and dated '87 (lower edge in the margin)

gouache on paper

unframed (sheet): 27.5 by 31.5cm.; 10¾ by 12½ in.

framed: 29 by 32.5cm.; 11½ by 12¾in.

Executed in 1987.

We are grateful to the Bridget Riley Archive for their kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

Donated by the Artist to a charity auction in the 1980s, where acquired by the present owner

“Eventually I found what I was looking for in the conjunction of the vertical and diagonal...this conjunction was the new form. It could be seen as a patch of colour - acting almost like a brush mark. When enlarged, these formal patches become coloured planes that could take up different positions in space”

(B. RILEY, QUOTED IN EXHIBITION CATALOGUE, BRIDGET RILEY FLASHBACK, LONDON, HAYWARD GALLERY, 2009, P. 18).