Lot 221
  • 221

BRIDGET RILEY | Six Circles

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
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Description

  • After Bridget Riley
  • Six Circles
  • signed 
  • gouache and pencil on paper laid down on board
  • 79 by 45.5 cm. 31 1/8 by 17 7/8 in.
  • Executed circa 1970.

Provenance

Wolpe Gallery, Cape Town
Acquired from the above by the present owner in circa 1970

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate although the background tends more towards pale blue. Condition: This work is in very good condition. The sheet is laid down on board. There are artist's pinholes to all four corners and tiny compass holes to the centre of each circle. Very close inspection reveals some short and faint scuffs to the black pigment of each circle.
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Catalogue Note

"I had to give visual sensation more rein – my black-and-white paintings had been about states of being, states of composure and disturbance, but when I introduced colour in 1967 this began to change. Colour inevitably leads you to the world outside... I was beginning to find my way with a whole host of sensations to do with colour" (Bridget Riley cited in: Exh. Cat., London, Tate Britain, Bridget Riley, 2003, p. 19).