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Artist: Bridget Riley (b.1931) British Title: Two Blues (2003) Signature: signed, titled, dated (20)'03 and numbered 7/250 Medium: screenprint in colours on wove paper - numbered 7 from an edition of 250 Size: 38½ x 38cm (15.2 x 15in) Framed Size: 60 x 59cm (23.6 x 23.2in) Provenance: Private Collection Literature: Bridget Riley - The Complete Prints 1962-2020, Thames & Hudson, London (2020); No. BRS 52, pp.174-175 (illus.) Notes: Schubert 52 a#morebtn { color: #de1d01; } a#morebtn:hover { cursor: pointer;} A work that combines sensuous curves with hard angles and straight lines, Two Blues appears at first glance a simple composition but is in fact subtle and complex. The artist has worked with just three colours, white, light blue/mauve and deep blue. Each colour is allocated roughly the same amount o... Read more Bridget Riley Lot 10 - 'Two Blues (2003)' Estimate: €2,500 - €3,500 A work that combines sensuous curves with hard angles and straight lines, Two Blues appears at first glance a simple composition but is in fact subtle and complex. The artist has worked with just three colours, white, light blue/mauve and deep blue. Each colour is allocated roughly the same amount of surface area, and for the most part they alternate, so white runs parallel with blue and mauve. No colour is dominant, each steps forward, in turn, to play a role. Two Blues is a stylish work, where optics are not so important, and the Ben Nicholson like abstract areas of colour, and their relationship with each other, are dominant features in the work. The composition is deliberately aimed at the viewer not making any visual associations; were the print to be seen sideways, it could be construed as an abstraction based on reflected light on water, but by angling the lines of the composition, Riley has avoided this entanglement with reality. As Riley puts it: "The eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed and soothed, experience frictions and ruptures, glide and drift". The title of this work also contains a direct reference to Franz Schubert, whose Romantic song for piano and voice 'D.52' was composed in 1813. Born in London in 1931, Bridget Riley grew up in Lincolnshire where her father had a printing business. During World War II, Riley, along with her mother and her sister were evacuated to Cornwall, where they lived in a cottage not far from the sea, at Padstow. After the war she attended Cheltenham Ladies' College, before enrolling at Goldsmiths College of Art in 1952. During the following years, Riley cared for her father who had been in a serious car crash, and worked as an illustrator for the J. Walter Thompson advertising company. She also taught art at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Harrow. In the late '50's and early '60's she taught at art schools, including Lougborough, Hornsea and Croydon. Acutely aware of the lack of studio space in London, in 1968, Riley and her partner Peter Sedgwick founded the organisation SPACE, to provide these facilities at a reasonable cost to artists. Riley has had an exceptionally distinguished career as an artist, with works by her in most major museums in the United Kingdom, as well as the Musee d'Art Moderne in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Dia Centre in New York. In 1968, Riley represented Great Britain and won the International Prize for Painting at the Venice Biennale. Peter Murray, September 2021