Bridget Riley 🇬🇧 Print Release • Show News • Art For Sale

[doublehelix]

I missed the show in Paris, but I did catch the show at the Tate Liverpool last year and Karsten Schubert has a couple of great Riley paintings on show at the mo.

[afroken]

As far as I know Timothy Taylor is her primary gallery in the UK for original works:

www.timothytaylorgallery.com

I purchased this from them at Frieze 2 years ago.

Karsten Schubert is the primary gallery for her screen prints, including the publishing of this one.

As I said, I'm interested in swaps too, including combinations of swaps. I'll throw in a signed book from Riley's last London show too.

And it's a lot cheaper than most signed Banksy's that are from much higher editions and smaller in scale!

[pezlow]

Cheap print here:

www.whitechapelgallery.org/shop/index.php/fuseaction/shop.product/product_id/381?session_id=1253042197e4eb6177cb455e2192301a5f46b42269

Considerably less than her usual screenprints

[veralynn]

Thks for bringing this to the attn of the masses Pez, I think I'd need to see in the flesh as I find it optically challenging.....refreshing change.

[pezlow]

No worries. Optically challenging is what she does best.

[Winter]

It says ed.80 on the site but on the close-up pic it looks like 200. Bought one anyway so thanks for the heads-up. A nice little addition to my collection.

[bunnyboy]

I think it's an edition of 300 with 80 made available through that gallery.

[Pattycakes]

I saw one at Karsten Schuberts the other day it's lovely

[achtungbono]

Hmm

i once worked at a " city insititution" that had a neglected Riley '60's canvas haging in the fire exit stairwell, thick with dust and spiders webs

too big to fit in my bag unfortunately

[Briggs 74]

should have bought a bigger bag...

[Winter]

Definitely ed.300. Bigger than I thought. I only read the image size when I ordered.

[graffoto]

Sept 15, 2009 21:17:05 GMT 1 Pattycakes said:

I saw one at Karsten Schuberts the other day it's lovely

were these the same price there?

[Winter]

I would imagine so

[Pattycakes]

only half the edition is available to institutions, I think Whitechapel, Barbican and Liverpool Art Gallery, the remainder will be sold by KS once the institutions sell out, his price will be more like 700-900. Same thing was done with the tate print when she had her show in there a few years ago.

[silvermyn]

Riley's work is largely influenced by Victor Vasarely who first came up with the concept of OpArt.

Whilst there is nothing wrong with this print, if I was spending £350 on OpArt I'd put it towards a smaller edition by the master himself.

[Pattycakes]

Actually Silver you're not quite right. Op-Art was initially conceived by two British artists, Stanley William Hayter and Edward Wadsworth. Though neither called it nor saw themselves as op-artists and it was only a minor concern in their total artistic output. What people think of as op-art (the colourful patterns) came from Hayter's colour theory experiments from the 30's onwards, Vasarely, is pretty much considered the godfather of Op-Art but his work was really an extension and frankly bastardisation of what Hayter and Wadsworth were doing earlier. Most these op- theories have at their source the work that a group of British artist's most notably S W Hayter and Edward Wadsworth did in the early part of the century when designing camouflage for the British Army. Wadsworths main contribution was the development of Dazzle paint for battleships, Hayter worked on mechanized light machinery that worked with patterns to disperse the pattern in large objects such as tanks. The Zebras which is often credited as Vasarely's first op work is directly influenced by the Dazzle patterns Wadsworth was creating.

Riley, came to prominence in the early 60's and whilst she owes a debt to Vasarely her work is far more influenced by Wadsworth and Hayter.

As for owning a Vasarely over a Riley, frankly Vasarely whilst a talented artist was far too prolific, he over produced by such an extent that his prints are little more than attractive signed pieces of wall paper. Riley so far has resisted this urge and as a result has produced fewer than 70 prints (with edition sizes ranging from 20 to 300 which is by far the largest to date and is produced in this edition size purely to raise funds for Britain's ailing art institutions)

However if you want the real thing, and want to buy genuinely good and limited op- prints, hunt out SW Hayter's works from the 60's to late 80's generally they can be bought for under £700 and they are technically Brilliant. Anything earlier than the 60's goes in the thousands, and forget about owning a good Wadsworth, he produced few prints, and an example of a Dazzle ship will cost upwards of £80,000

[silvermyn]

Thank you, an interesting read printguru. I wasn't aware of Hayter and Edwards work before Vasarely

I have to agree with you, there are a lot of Vasarely prints out there. He also did some lovely work on carpet (including the Zebras) and cereamic so his work translated well to mediums other than paper. I've got a large perspex Vasarely chess set which although not signed was limited to 1000. Again a large edition issues with that one

[Zippy]

Printguru - many thanks for taking the time to write that. It was the most interesting post I have read on here for ages!
Do you think an edition of 300 is that big for such a famous artist?
Z

[Pattycakes]

Hi Zippy, not a problem. I think 300 is a fairly big edition yes. Generally I don't buy anything over and edition of 100, the only uasal exception is Warhol (all are about 250) but this is a nice print, and a good size to put on a small wall. For a Riley frankly you cannot go wrong for 350

[thegreatarchitect]

Sept 16, 2009 9:24:54 GMT 1 @Silverman said:

Riley's work is largely influenced by Victor Vasarely who first came up with the concept of OpArt.

Whilst there is nothing wrong with this print, if I was spending £350 on OpArt I'd put it towards a smaller edition by the master himself.

Couldn't agree more. Nice to know someone knows what their talking about

[thegreatarchitect]

Sept 16, 2009 10:27:47 GMT 1 Pattycakes said:

Actually Silver you're not quite right. Op-Art was initially conceived by two British artists, Stanley William Hayter and Edward Wadsworth. Though neither called it nor saw themselves as op-artists and it was only a minor concern in their total artistic output. What people think of as op-art (the colourful patterns) came from Hayter's colour theory experiments from the 30's onwards, Vasarely, is pretty much considered the godfather of Op-Art but his work was really an extension and frankly bastardisation of what Hayter and Wadsworth were doing earlier. Most these op- theories have at their source the work that a group of British artist's most notably S W Hayter and Edward Wadsworth did in the early part of the century when designing camouflage for the British Army. Wadsworths main contribution was the development of Dazzle paint for battleships, Hayter worked on mechanized light machinery that worked with patterns to disperse the pattern in large objects such as tanks. The Zebras which is often credited as Vasarely's first op work is directly influenced by the Dazzle patterns Wadsworth was creating.

Riley, came to prominence in the early 60's and whilst she owes a debt to Vasarely her work is far more influenced by Wadsworth and Hayter.

As for owning a Vasarely over a Riley, frankly Vasarely whilst a talented artist was far too prolific, he over produced by such an extent that his prints are little more than attractive signed pieces of wall paper. Riley so far has resisted this urge and as a result has produced fewer than 70 prints (with edition sizes ranging from 20 to 300 which is by far the largest to date and is produced in this edition size purely to raise funds for Britain's ailing art institutions)

However if you want the real thing, and want to buy genuinely good and limited op- prints, hunt out SW Hayter's works from the 60's to late 80's generally they can be bought for under £700 and they are technically Brilliant. Anything earlier than the 60's goes in the thousands, and forget about owning a good Wadsworth, he produced few prints, and an example of a Dazzle ship will cost upwards of £80,000

Nice post

[walters]

Sept 17, 2009 21:57:18 GMT 1 @thegreatarchitect said:

Sept 16, 2009 10:27:47 GMT 1 Pattycakes said:

Actually Silver you're not quite right. Op-Art was initially conceived by two British artists, Stanley William Hayter and Edward Wadsworth. Though neither called it nor saw themselves as op-artists and it was only a minor concern in their total artistic output. What people think of as op-art (the colourful patterns) came from Hayter's colour theory experiments from the 30's onwards, Vasarely, is pretty much considered the godfather of Op-Art but his work was really an extension and frankly bastardisation of what Hayter and Wadsworth were doing earlier. Most these op- theories have at their source the work that a group of British artist's most notably S W Hayter and Edward Wadsworth did in the early part of the century when designing camouflage for the British Army. Wadsworths main contribution was the development of Dazzle paint for battleships, Hayter worked on mechanized light machinery that worked with patterns to disperse the pattern in large objects such as tanks. The Zebras which is often credited as Vasarely's first op work is directly influenced by the Dazzle patterns Wadsworth was creating.

Riley, came to prominence in the early 60's and whilst she owes a debt to Vasarely her work is far more influenced by Wadsworth and Hayter.

As for owning a Vasarely over a Riley, frankly Vasarely whilst a talented artist was far too prolific, he over produced by such an extent that his prints are little more than attractive signed pieces of wall paper. Riley so far has resisted this urge and as a result has produced fewer than 70 prints (with edition sizes ranging from 20 to 300 which is by far the largest to date and is produced in this edition size purely to raise funds for Britain's ailing art institutions)

However if you want the real thing, and want to buy genuinely good and limited op- prints, hunt out SW Hayter's works from the 60's to late 80's generally they can be bought for under £700 and they are technically Brilliant. Anything earlier than the 60's goes in the thousands, and forget about owning a good Wadsworth, he produced few prints, and an example of a Dazzle ship will cost upwards of £80,000

Nice post

i agree.

[Winter]

Whitechapel sold out their quota pretty quickly

[Pattycakes]

I've been told that Liverpool will have some, and some also will go to the Barbican.

[Winter]

Got mine today and very nice it is to. I had an email yesterday from Karsten Schubert offering me one of the last few from the studio at £750+vat

[thorkil]

Winter could post a picture, as I would be interested to grow my op art collection and do not have not work from Bridget Riley.

Does anyone know if the print is totally sold out or if other dealers are still selling them?

[dotdot]

Oct 4, 2009 12:55:57 GMT 1 thorkil said:

Winter could post a picture, as I would be interested to grow my op art collection and do not have not work from Bridget Riley.

Does anyone know if the print is totally sold out or if other dealers are still selling them?

gone weeks back when i called KS !
- winter ? - interesting email ....
(KS) they told me "long gone..".

[samo]

Oct 4, 2009 12:55:57 GMT 1 thorkil said:

Winter could post a picture, as I would be interested to grow my op art collection and do not have not work from Bridget Riley.

Does anyone know if the print is totally sold out or if other dealers are still selling them?

Here's a picture of mine. Thanks for mentioning this Pezlow.

[neworder27red]

If anyone has one for sale please pm me!

Thanks

[Zippy]

I have a friend who is looking to buy the recent Bridget Riley print 'One small step'.
Please PM me if you have one for sale.
Thanks
Z