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Gala by Bridget Riley

Bridget Riley

Gala, 1974

Acrylic on canvas
159.4 x 159.4 cm (62.75 x 62.75 in)
Paintings
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Last recorded sale at Christie's, London (22 Mar 2022)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
Mar 22, 2022
Christie'sLondonModern British and Irish Art Evening Sale10
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Gala
Feb 5, 2009
Sotheby'sLondonContemporary Evening Sale9
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Gala
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Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

159.4 x 159.4 cm (62.75 x 62.75 in)

Materials

acrylic on canvas

Signature

signed, inscribed and dated ‘1974' (on the reverse), signed, inscribed and dated again ‘1974' (on the stretcher), signed and dated again ‘Riley 74' (on the left turnover edge)

Provenance

with Galerie Beyeler, Basel.

Private collection, Bermuda.

with Robert Sandelson Gallery, London, where purchased by the previous owner.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 5 February 2009, lot 9, where purchased by the present owner.

Exhibited

Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Bridget Riley, February - March 1975, no. 18.

Buffalo, British Council, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Bridget Riley: Works 1959-78 , September - October 1978, no. 46: this exhibition travelled to Dallas, Museum of Fine Art, October - November 1978; New York, Neuberger Museum, January - March 1979; Sydney, Centrepoint Gallery Space, August - September 1979; Perth, Art Gallery of Western Australia, October - November 1979; and Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, January - March 1980.

Atlanta, High Museum of Art, on long term loan, 1987-1996.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Bridget Riley , Basel, Galerie Beyeler, 1975, n.p., no. 18, illustrated on the front cover.

Exhibition catalogue, Bridget Riley: Works 1959-78 , Buffalo, British Council, Albright Knox Art Gallery, 1978, pp. 57, 70, no. 46, illustrated.

R. Kudielka, A. Tommasini and N. Naish (eds.), Bridget Riley: The Complete Paintings, Volume 2, 1974-1997 , London, 2018, pp. 410-411 , no. BR 162, illustrated.

Description

BRIDGET RILEY, C.H. (B. 1931)

Gala

signed, inscribed and dated ‘1974' (on the reverse), signed, inscribed and dated again ‘1974' (on the stretcher), signed and dated again ‘Riley 74' (on the left turnover edge)

acrylic on canvas

62 3⁄4 x 62 3⁄4 in. (159.7 x 159.7 cm.)

Painted in 1974.