The sale dedicated to the Editions on Wednesday, December 11, 2019 will be the opportunity for PIASA to offer for sale a silkscreen print by the British artist Bridget Riley.
Bridget Riley's trajectory began in Georges Seurat's pointillist painting. Extending the principle of the optical distribution of colours on the canvas, the artist gradually directs his painting to be fully part of the Op Art movement. Born in London in 1931, she attended the Royal College of Art from 1952 to 1955 where she met Peter Blake and Frank Auerbach.
Through the influence of Victor Vasarely's works, whose black and white motifs had been used since the 1930s and those of the futuristic painter Giacomo Balla, the artist became interested in optical illusion.
Bridget Riley (né en 1931) Two Blues - 2003
Estimate : 4000 / 6000 €
His works were the subject of a first solo exhibition at Gallery One in 1962. Alongside artists such as Josef Albers, Victor Vasarely, Yaacov Agam and Richard Anuszkiewicz, the artist was integrated into the course of the exhibition The Responsive Eye in 1965 at the Museum of Modern Art, and a few years later received the Grand Prize at the Venice Biennale.
Silkscreen in two shades of blue on wove paper entitled "Two Blues" (250 copies published) was produced in 2003. The blue-coloured shapes suggest movement. It is estimated between 4,000 and 6,000 euros
Since the mid-1990s, she has been painting murals, including White Noise" at the Kunsthalle in Bern. She also completed a 46 m high in situ installation for Citibank in London, built by Norman Foster.
In June 2019, PIASA awarded 6,500 euros for a colour silkscreen on vellum that the artist had made in 1971.
