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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Bridget Riley, Yellow, Turquoise, Red, Blue with Black and White, 1981
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Bridget Riley, Yellow, Turquoise, Red, Blue with Black and White, 1981
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Bridget Riley b. 1931

Yellow, Turquoise, Red, Blue with Black and White, 1981
graphite and gouache on paper
27 5/8 x 23 1/2 in
70.2 x 59.6 cm
signed, titled and dated
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Executed in 1981, Yellow, Turquoise, Red, Blue with Black and White, belongs to a group of works commenced shortly after the artist’s trip to Egypt in 1979-80. As Riley noted...
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Executed in 1981, Yellow, Turquoise, Red, Blue with Black and White, belongs to a group of works commenced
shortly after the artist’s trip to Egypt in 1979-80. As Riley noted in a later text, “It was a luxurious visit in
many ways: cool fresh mornings, filled with brilliant light, the silk-surface of the Nile, seemingly undisturbed,
and each day seeing the tomb paintings, with their pure and beautiful colours” (The Eye’s Mind: Bridget Riley,
Collected Writings 1965-2009, p. 150). Referencing the hues of ochre yellow and turquoise characteristic of the
art of Ancient Egypt, Riley evolves the palette in the extensive series of paintings executed between 1981 and
1983. Many works from this series can be found in international public collections including Iwaki City Art
Museum, Japan; Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, England; Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie,
Germany; Tate, London, England; Leeds Art Gallery, England; Walker Art Gallery, England; Kunsthaus Zürich,
Switzerland; Queensland Art Gallery, Australia; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Provenance

Collection of the artist

David Zwirner Gallery, London

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 2015)

Skarsdedt Gallery

Exhibitions

New York, David Zwirner, Bridget Riley, 5 November - 19 December 2015; exhibition catalogue (text by Richard Shiff).

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