5 Year Print Market Review 2023

bridget riley

Bridget
Riley

Leading the British Op-Art movement, Bridget Riley’s pioneering abstract paintings and prints play with visual perception, geometry, and colour. If you’re looking for original Bridget Riley prints and editions for sale or would like to sell, request a complimentary valuation and browse our network’s most in-demand works.

Notable series

Elongated Triangles

5 works

Waves

7 works

Magenta

3 works

Lozenges

22 works

Composition With Circles

6 works

Stripes

15 works

Nineteen Greys

4 works

Bridget Riley prints for sale

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Fragment 2 Signed Print

Bridget Riley

£25,000-£35,000 VALUE (EST.)

$45,000-$60,000 VALUE (EST.)

$40,000-$60,000 VALUE (EST.)

¥210,000-¥300,000 VALUE (EST.)

€29,000-€40,000 VALUE (EST.)

$240,000-$340,000 VALUE (EST.)

¥4,030,000-¥5,650,000 VALUE (EST.)

$30,000-$45,000 VALUE (EST.)

1% AAGR

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Fragment 6 Signed Print

Bridget Riley

£19,000-£28,000 VALUE (EST.)

$35,000-$50,000 VALUE (EST.)

$30,000-$45,000 VALUE (EST.)

¥160,000-¥230,000 VALUE (EST.)

€22,000-€30,000 VALUE (EST.)

$180,000-$270,000 VALUE (EST.)

¥3,060,000-¥4,510,000 VALUE (EST.)

$23,000-$35,000 VALUE (EST.)

-11% AAGR

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From One To The Other Signed Print

Bridget Riley

£8,500-£13,000 VALUE (EST.)

$15,000-$24,000 VALUE (EST.)

$14,000-$22,000 VALUE (EST.)

¥70,000-¥110,000 VALUE (EST.)

€9,500-€15,000 VALUE (EST.)

$80,000-$120,000 VALUE (EST.)

¥1,370,000-¥2,100,000 VALUE (EST.)

$10,500-$16,000 VALUE (EST.)

60% AAGR

Made To Measure Signed Print

Bridget Riley

£5,500-£8,500 VALUE (EST.)

$10,000-$15,000 VALUE (EST.)

$9,000-$14,000 VALUE (EST.)

¥45,000-¥70,000 VALUE (EST.)

€6,500-€9,500 VALUE (EST.)

$50,000-$80,000 VALUE (EST.)

¥890,000-¥1,370,000 VALUE (EST.)

$6,500-$10,500 VALUE (EST.)

12% AAGR

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Light Between Signed Print

Bridget Riley

£12,500-£19,000 VALUE (EST.)

$23,000-$35,000 VALUE (EST.)

$21,000-$30,000 VALUE (EST.)

¥110,000-¥160,000 VALUE (EST.)

€14,500-€22,000 VALUE (EST.)

$120,000-$180,000 VALUE (EST.)

¥2,020,000-¥3,070,000 VALUE (EST.)

$15,000-$23,000 VALUE (EST.)

45% AAGR

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Passing By Signed Print

Bridget Riley

£9,000-£13,000 VALUE (EST.)

$16,000-$24,000 VALUE (EST.)

$15,000-$22,000 VALUE (EST.)

¥80,000-¥110,000 VALUE (EST.)

€10,000-€15,000 VALUE (EST.)

$90,000-$120,000 VALUE (EST.)

¥1,450,000-¥2,100,000 VALUE (EST.)

$11,000-$16,000 VALUE (EST.)

29% AAGR

Untitled (Based On Primitive Blaze) Signed Print

Bridget Riley

£35,000-£50,000 VALUE (EST.)

$60,000-$90,000 VALUE (EST.)

$60,000-$80,000 VALUE (EST.)

¥300,000-¥420,000 VALUE (EST.)

€40,000-€60,000 VALUE (EST.)

$340,000-$480,000 VALUE (EST.)

¥5,650,000-¥8,070,000 VALUE (EST.)

$45,000-$60,000 VALUE (EST.)

1% AAGR

Untitled, Circular Movement Signed Print

Bridget Riley

£35,000-£50,000 VALUE (EST.)

$60,000-$90,000 VALUE (EST.)

$60,000-$80,000 VALUE (EST.)

¥290,000-¥420,000 VALUE (EST.)

€40,000-€60,000 VALUE (EST.)

$330,000-$480,000 VALUE (EST.)

¥5,640,000-¥8,060,000 VALUE (EST.)

$45,000-$60,000 VALUE (EST.)

-4% AAGR

Red Red Blue Signed Print

Bridget Riley

£10,000-£14,500 VALUE (EST.)

$18,000-$26,000 VALUE (EST.)

$17,000-$24,000 VALUE (EST.)

¥80,000-¥120,000 VALUE (EST.)

€11,500-€17,000 VALUE (EST.)

$100,000-$140,000 VALUE (EST.)

¥1,610,000-¥2,340,000 VALUE (EST.)

$12,000-$18,000 VALUE (EST.)

35% AAGR

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3 in network

Print For Chicago 8 Signed Print

Bridget Riley

£11,500-£17,000 VALUE (EST.)

$21,000-$30,000 VALUE (EST.)

$19,000-$29,000 VALUE (EST.)

¥100,000-¥140,000 VALUE (EST.)

€13,000-€19,000 VALUE (EST.)

$110,000-$160,000 VALUE (EST.)

¥1,860,000-¥2,740,000 VALUE (EST.)

$14,000-$21,000 VALUE (EST.)

71% AAGR

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Biography

Op Art luminary Bridget Riley plays with optical and chromatic phenomena and is a central figure in modern and abstract art. Imploring the viewer to consider how it physically feels to look, Riley constructs geometric patterns which cause perceptual disruption.

Born in Norwood, London, in 1931, Riley's early biography sees her spend most of her childhood in Cornwall and Lincolnshire, going on to study at the Royal College of Art from 1952 to 1955. Initially painting figurative subjects in a semi-Impressionist manner, everything about Riley’s style evolved in the 1960s when she developed the iconic style she is known for today and began to dominate the Abstract Op Art scene in Britain. Op Art explored the dynamic potentialities of optical phenomena and created works that produced a disorientating, dizzying effect on the eye – an effect that has become emblematic of a Riley artwork. Deceptively simple from the beginning, Riley’s jazzy, psychedelic work continues to define contemporary British art.

Riley’s career and success took off at the start of the 1960s. The game changer, as she admits, was her 1961 Movement in Squares. This painting was a ground-breaking moment for the artist, as it marked the start of her journey towards the geometric patterns that define her oeuvre. With its endless dizzying and mesmerising effects, her Movement in Squares set the tone for her future masterpieces.

A second watershed in her career, in 1967 her Stripes series officially introduced colour to Riley’s previously monochromatic black and white works. The stability of the repeated stripe form enabled Riley to explore the visual effects of colour and varying colour combinations in greater depth, expanding her compositions' perceptual and optical possibilities. Distinctive and optically vibrant, the Stripes series is truly iconic.

Following Riley’s precipitous rise to fame, the fashion industry quickly appropriated her zingy geometric designs. Concerned this would damage her artistic reputation, Riley was perturbed. However, as the artist continued to innovate and expand the bounds of her painting formally, her reputation never suffered. Riley progressed to having her first major solo exhibition in 1971 at the Hayward Gallery. Featuring one of her earliest works, the gallery continues to foster a relationship with Riley, presenting the 2019-20 Bridget Riley exhibition nearly five decades later. The National Galleries of Scotland also exhibited Riley’s artworks from June until September 2019, displaying over 70 years’ worth of paintings that defined British art.

Working exclusively in monochrome until the late 1960s, Riley’s early works integrate optical, scientific effects into the language of painting. Typically featuring repeated geometric shapes, Riley created the effect of movement on two-dimensional surfaces, stimulating the viewer’s eyes into sharper attention as the canvases appear to move and oscillate. Riley’s first works demonstrate her desire to capture the dazzling brilliance of nature in non-figurative abstraction: rendering the sensations and emotions generated when regarding nature in paint, rather than the natural landscapes themselves.
Throughout the 1960s, Riley developed her practice by incorporating grey hues into her works. Yet, it was these exclusively black and white works which initially propelled Riley to international acclaim following the artist’s inaugural solo show at Gallery One in 1962.
Riley credits her fervent interest in colour and form with the work of the Italian Futurists and French Masters such as Henri Matisse and Georges Seurat. Pointillism and Divisionism also underpin Riley’s practice: both modern art movements that rely on the capacity of the eye to regard colours laid side by side in order to achieve a fuller spectrum of colour. Like many artists before Riley, including Sonia Delaunay and Josef Albers, Riley was keen to explore the emotional reactions colours could evoke in the viewer.
On Seurat’s work Riley confessed: 'his work gave me a sense of the viewer’s importance as an active participant. Perception became the medium'. This reflects Riley’s utopian view of the function of art: the viewer completes the experience of painting by regarding the artwork.
In 1965, Riley was featured in the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition The Responsive Eye in New York; the exhibition that first drew world-wide attention to her work. In 1968, Riley represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale and was the first woman to receive the International Painting Prize.
In 1998, Riley became one of only 65 Companions of Honor in Britain. In 2019 the Hayward Gallery opened a 70-year retrospective of Riley’s life and oeuvre. Now at the age of 90, Riley continues to inspire younger generations of artists from Damien Hirst to Rachel Whiteread.

Record prices

All Bridget Riley's record prices

Image © Christie's / Gala © Bridget Riley 1974

1. £4.4M for Bridget Riley's Gala

Initially executed in 1974, Bridget Riley’s Gala dabbles with bold colours, perfectly simulating the motion of the rippling surface of a stream. This painting represents the height of the Op Art movement and Riley’s experimentation and transition to the more visually daring.

Gala surpassed its presale estimates of £2.5-£3.5million, selling at an eye-watering £4.4million at the 2022 Modern British Art Evening Sale in Christie’s in London.

Untitled (Diagonal Curve) by Bridget Riley

Image © Christie's / Untitled (Diagonal Curve) © Bridget Riley 1971

2. £4.3M for Bridget Riley's Untitled, Diagonal Curve

A stand-out example of British artist Bridget Riley’s visually arresting illusionist œuvre, Untitled (Diagonal Curve) (1966) smashed its price estimate (between £2.5 million and £3.5 million), realising £4,338,500 at Christie’s London in June of 2016. Performing markedly stronger than some of its straight-lined counterparts, such as Zing 2 (1971), which realised just under £3.3 million in June 2021, this dynamic, monochrome work reminds us of Riley’s position at the centre point of the Op Art movement.

Comprising a vertigo-inducing assemblage of seemingly oscillatory form, this optically challenging piece is one of the artist’s last experimentations with black and white; the next year, Riley would go on to make her first bold steps in the world of colour.

Image © Christie's / Zing 2 © Bridget Riley 1971

3. £3.3M for Bridget Riley's Zing 2

A work typical of British artist Bridget Riley’s œuvre during the ‘60s and ‘70s, Zing 2 (1971) has remained hidden from the public eye since the time of its production. Significantly outstripping its auction price estimate of £1.8 million - £2.2 million, the work realised just under £3.3 million in June 2021 at Christie’s auction house in London.

In contrast with the markedly more serpentine elements of Riley’s work, such as those vibrant paintings the artist created during the 1980s and beyond, Riley’s use of colour appears somewhat muted. Ever present, however, is the artist’s highly technical, semi-illusionist approach to geometric form – a hallmark of the so-called Op Art movement.

Image © Christie's / Chant 2 © Bridget Riley 1967

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