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Bidding is now open for our Fine Art, Jewelry, Design & Asian Art auction, Day 2 of our three-day December sale, featuring paintings, prints, sculpture, fine jewelry, watches, porcelain and Asian works of art. Highlights include a George Gardner Symons 'Winter River' oil on canvas, an 18K gold Tiffany & Co. Mark Coupe resonator watch and a Dale Chihuly "Persian Set," alongside works by Bridget Riley, Joan Miró, Rufino Tamayo and Chen Chi-Kwan, and more. Auction is Wednesday, December 2nd at 1 PM CST. Local pickup is December 7th, 8th and 9th from 1 to 5 PM at 5263 Edina Industrial Blvd, Edina, MN. Shipping is available on all lots.
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Lot 305

Bridget Riley "Nineteen Greys" Screenprint

Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
Starting Bid
$1,400

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Signed lower right and numbered lower left. 

Limited Edition: Artist's Proof 

 

Unframed: 29 3/4" Tall x 29 3/4" Wide 

 

Condition: Light wear to the edges of the board, including wear to corners and lines from previous framing. Light marks to the print, concentrated in the center of the piece. Please see images for details. 

 

Artist Bio: Bridget Riley (b. 1931) is the leading figure of Op Art and one of the defining British painters of the postwar era. Trained at Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Art, she arrived at her mature language in the early 1960s with black and white paintings whose precise, repeated forms make the surface appear to ripple, swell and flicker before the eye. Her inclusion in "The Responsive Eye" at the Museum of Modern Art in 1965 brought her international attention, and in 1968 she became the first woman to win the International Prize for Painting at the Venice Biennale.

In the later 1960s Riley moved from black and white into tone and color, testing how small shifts between neighboring values could generate light and movement. "Nineteen Greys" of 1968 is a set of four screenprints, printed at Kelpra Studio in London, in which repeated ovals are worked in nineteen carefully calibrated greys, warm against cool. The series sits at the hinge of that transition, a study of how much optical energy can be drawn from the narrowest range of color. This sheet is inscribed as an artist's proof.

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