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Rothko Portfolio - Signed Print by Bridget Riley 1973 - MyArtBroker

Rothko Portfolio
Signed Print

Bridget Riley

£8,500-£12,500Value Indicator

$17,000-$26,000 Value Indicator

$16,000-$23,000 Value Indicator

¥80,000-¥120,000 Value Indicator

€10,000-€14,500 Value Indicator

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¥1,690,000-¥2,480,000 Value Indicator

$11,500-$17,000 Value Indicator

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56 x 78cm, Edition of 75, Screenprint

Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 75

Year: 1973

Size: H 56cm x W 78cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

Last Auction: November 2024

Value Trend:

28% AAGR

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Auction Results

Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
November 2024
Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers
United Kingdom
£8,075
£9,500
£12,464
October 2024
Forum Auctions London
United Kingdom
June 2023
Phillips London
United Kingdom
April 2020
Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers
United States
October 2019
Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers
United States
March 2018
Bonhams Knightsbridge
United Kingdom
June 2016
Bonhams New Bond Street
United Kingdom
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The value of Bridget Riley's Rothko Portfolio (signed) is estimated to be worth between £8,500 and £12,500. This screenprint, created in 1973, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 28%. This work has an auction history of 17 total sales since its entry to the market in June 2004. In the last 12 months, the average selling price was £9,750, across 2 total sales. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £9,500 in November 2024 to £15,000 in June 2023. The average annual growth rate is also strong, at 28%. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 75.

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Meaning & Analysis

Rothko Portfolio is composed of four rectangular blocks which contain short diagonal lines that alternate directions in the first two blocks, but then face the same direction in the bottom half. The lines constituting each block are electric blue, with an alternating thin line of colour on each side of the line.

Working exclusively in black and white until the 1970s, Riley subsequently revelled in exploring the boundless visual and emotional effects of colour combinations, which added another layer of optical illusion to her artwork. Utilising colour to achieve new optical effects, Riley saw shape and colour as “ultimate identities'' interacting on the two-dimensional canvas surface.

Rothko Portfolio was contributed by Riley to a portfolio of prints published in 1973 by the Mark Rothko Memorial Trust, a charity established by Bryan Robertson to facilitate bursaries for artists working in the UK to travel to the US. Twelve other artists were involved. Rothko had committed suicide in 1970, one year before Riley’s first retrospective at the Hayward Gallery, London.