Name: Echo
Brand: Bridget Riley
Rating: 5 (236 reviews)

Track auction value trend

Bridget Riley's Echo, a signed screenprint from 1998, is estimated to be worth between £12,000 and £16,000. This artwork has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 26%. This piece has an impressive auction history, having been sold 18 times at auction since its initial sale in April 2003. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £11,000, across 2 total sales. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £4,984 in July 2020 to £11,000 in September 2024. The average annual growth rate for this work is 26%. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 75.

Meaning & Analysis

Echo is a signed screen print by Bridget Riley, released in 1998 in an edition of 75. The print is composed of interlocking planes of colour, whose elegant, serpentine lines evoke a sense of disembodied movement. Executed in three colours, as well as black and white, the colour palette of Echo is similar to that of Start. Yet, here, the inclusion of black darkens the print, simultaneously heightening the vibrancy of the adjacent colours. Consequently, Riley is able to engage in an in-depth analysis into colour and its potentialities.

Throughout her career, now spanning more than six decades, Riley has unfalteringly revelled in exploring the visual and emotional effects of various colour combinations, and Echo is no exception. Regarding colour as capable of eliciting emotional responses in the viewer, Riley often painted comparable compositions in similar colour palettes, varying just one colour.