Colour and interval set moving by nothing more than placement
Riley’s paintings do something no reproduction carries: stand in front of one and the surface will not hold still. She achieved it first in black and white in the early 1960s, then spent sixty years working out what colour could do in the same terms.
She has been consistently underpriced relative to her male contemporaries, which is slowly correcting. The 1960s canvases are effectively unavailable; the screenprints and gouaches are not.
We advise on both, and on which prints are worth their asking price.
BornLondon, 1931
Lives and worksLondon and the Vaucluse
MediaPainting, screenprint, gouache
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