Name: Sideways
Brand: Bridget Riley
Rating: 5 (235 reviews)

Track auction value trend

Bridget Riley's Sideways, a signed screenprint from 2010, is estimated to be worth between £7,500 and £11,000. This work has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 8%. There have been 27 total sales at auction since its entry to the market in February 2011. In the last 12 months, the average selling price was £8,000 across 1 total sale. Over the past five years, the hammer price has varied from £3,000 in September 2020 to £9,071 in March 2024. The average return to the seller over this period has been £4,862. This work is part of a limited edition of 250.

Meaning & Analysis

Sideways is a signed screen print released by Bridget Riley in 2010 from a limited edition of 250 prints. Composed of nine vertical stripes, of thicker width than those constituting the other works in Bridget Riley’s iconic, instantly recognisable series of works featuring stripes. Seven colours have been selected, two of which repeat. Riley intended these striped works to be read horizontally, so that the effects of each colour meeting the next along the vertical axis is registered, Read in this way, Riley’s carefully constructed sequence of colours and the strong interaction of adjacent colours is optimally felt.

Carefully choosing a sequence of colours, Riley explores the subtle, varying effects of each tone on the next. Regular stripes also provide a compositional framework lacking any reference to the external world. Free of contextual and cultural baggage that permeated other artworks, this geometric form enables Riley to further explore the effects of colour. Having investigated colour in this way for several decades now, these works are unquestionably Riley’s most famous.