Bridget RILEY Start  (2000)

An original screenprint in colours on wove paper. Signed Bridget Riley in pencil lower right, dated '00 and numbered from the limited edition of 200.  Printed by Sally Gimson, Artizan Editions, Hove and published by the artist. Referenced in Bridget Riley The Complete Prints 1962-2020 The Bridget Riley Art Foundation (2020), cat no. BRS 41, and Karsten Schubert Bridget Riley Complete Prints 1962–2012, 41. In near mint condition with strong, bright colours and never framed. Purchased from Alan Cristea Gallery.

A beautifully coloured, immediately recognisable signed print by arguably Britain's most pre-eminent abstract artist.

Bridget Riley was born in Norwood, London and attended Royal College of Art alongside fellow students Peter Blake and Frank Auerbach. After graduating, she taught art to children in schools, worked in an ad agency, and later taught in art colleges. An exhibition of Jackson Pollock’s work at the Whitechapel Gallery in London in 1958, combined with an exhibition of Futurism at the Venice Biennale in 1960, stimulated the development of what was to become her signature style - Op Art. Riley is also a published writer on Old Masters and on contemporary art and has co-curated major exhibitions by artists Piet Mondrian and Paul Klee.