Name: About Lilac
Brand: Bridget Riley
Rating: 5 (236 reviews)

Track auction value trend

Bridget Riley's About Lilac (signed) from 2007 is a vibrant screenprint, estimated to be worth between £5,500 and £8,500. This artwork has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 6%. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £4,819, across 12 total sales. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £4,000 in January 2025 to £7,500 in March 2022. This work has an auction history of 40 total sales since its entry to the market in November 2012. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 75.

Meaning & Analysis

About Lilac, executed in 2007 and released in an edition of 75, is composed of serpentine forms that swoop across the canvas in green, lilac and red. The curved forms are visually unhinged from their substructure, creating a figure and ground juxtaposition.

In an interview, Riley once justified her use of the curved form by saying: “one cannot tackle the instability and infinite variety of colour relationships without relying on some sort of formal backbone.” “By using twisted curves” Riley states, “I could bunch up colour sensations in a way that went further than the lateral groupings. When colours are twisted along the rise and fall of a curve their juxtapositions change continually”. Therefore, the curvilinear forms present in About Lilac, and that underpin the entire Lozenges series, are a formal progression from the stripe of Riley’s earlier works and enable a greater depth of interaction and exploration into varying colour combinations.