Achæan
Achæan
Signed Print
Bridget Riley
24 x 20cm, Screenprint, 1981
£9,000-£13,500
$17,000-$25,000 Market Value Indicator
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Meaning & Analysis
Composed with colours Riley was touched by on her travels to Egypt in the Autumn of 1981, Achæan, like the other works featuring stripes, is to be read horizontally across the bands of colour. Riley regarded the shades in this work as a breakthrough in that they provided the optical effect she sought after and are brighter, purer colours in comparison to the ones she had used previously.
There is no regulated system of colour placement here, although, in some parts, the placement has the appearance of a reflection about a central colour. The title, given to the work retrospectively, refers to the Greeks who made the finest early sculptures - ‘vigorous but simple’, and which correspond to the character of the painting, which Riley regards as being ‘dark and Mediterranean’.
