Bridget Riley - Frieze (2000)

Frieze (2000) belongs to the mature phase of Bridget Riley's graphic work, where the language she established in painting is carried onto paper with the same discipline. The composition develops horizontally through bands of blue, green and ochre, arranged so that the eye travels across the surface without finding a point of rest: figure and ground stay in dialogue and the rhythm never resolves.

The frieze format evokes a sequence continuing beyond the edges of the sheet, as though the print were a fragment of a longer movement. The screenprint, a medium Riley handled with particular care, preserves the chromatic quality and the sharpness that make each impression of the edition consistent and verifiable.

Bridget Riley (London, 1931) is the principal figure of Op Art and one of the defining artists of post-war British art. Her research turned the graphic surface into a living perceptual field, in which geometry generates movement, tension and visual vibration. Her work is held by Tate, the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago, and in 1968 she received the International Prize for Painting at the Venice Biennale.

This example is numbered 106/200 and is signed, dated and numbered by the artist by hand. It is in excellent condition and its provenance is traceable: Karsten Schubert Gallery, London, and subsequently a private German collection.