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Shade - Signed Print by Bridget Riley 1992 - MyArtBroker

Shade
Signed Print

Bridget Riley

£6,000-£9,000Value Indicator

$12,000-$18,000 Value Indicator

$11,000-$16,000 Value Indicator

¥60,000-¥80,000 Value Indicator

7,000-11,000 Value Indicator

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¥1,130,000-¥1,700,000 Value Indicator

$7,500-$11,500 Value Indicator

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Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 75

Year: 1992

Size: H 48cm x W 33cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Bridget Riley's Shade (signed) from 1992 is estimated to be worth between £6,000 and £9,000. This screenprint has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 6%. This work has an auction history of 11 total sales since its entry to the market in June 2004. In the past 12 months, the average selling price was £6,000, with a total of 1 artwork sold. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £6,000 in December 2019 to £7,471 in October 2023. The average return to the seller during this period was £5,725. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 75.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
December 2024Bonhams Knightsbridge United Kingdom
October 2023Sotheby's New York United States
March 2019Lyon & Turnbull Edinburgh United Kingdom
May 2017Chiswick Auctions United Kingdom
February 2013Bonhams Knightsbridge United Kingdom
September 2010Christie's London United Kingdom
April 2007Christie's London United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

When discussing the series of prints featuring zigs or rhomboids, Riley stated their compositions were intended to be like ‘a coherent fabric of colour which advances and recedes in planes’. By cutting across the main bands, the diagonal shapes suggest layers of receding space. In Shade, these forms are larger blocks of colour. The composition is essentially a closer look at one section of another print belonging to the series.

By fashioning this innovative rhomboid form Riley claims a “whole new field of relationships opened up”. When enlarged, such as in Shade, these forms take up different positions in space. Ultimately, these shapes serve several functions: “they can change scale, harmonise or contrast with one another, repeat, echo,’create places’, etc.” Across her oeuvre, Riley teases out the different energies inherent in varying tonalities, delighting in the push-and-pull created through the juxtaposition of competing colours.

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