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Firebird Signed Print

Firebird

Bridget Riley

Firebird
Signed Print

Name: Firebird
Brand: Bridget Riley
Rating: 5 (231 reviews)

Bridget Riley

£19,000-£29,000

$40,000-$60,000 Value Indicator

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¥170,000-¥270,000 Value Indicator

€23,000-€35,000 Value Indicator

$190,000-$280,000 Value Indicator

¥3,730,000-¥5,700,000 Value Indicator

$24,000-$35,000 Value Indicator

3% AAGR

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Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 75

Year: 1971

Size: H 69cm x W 97cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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Bridget Riley's Firebird (signed), a screenprint from 1971, is estimated to be worth between £19,000 and £29,000. This artwork has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 3%. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £19,000 in December 2023 to £42,000 in March 2021. This is a popular work, having been sold 15 times at auction since its entry to the market in October 2004. The most recent sale was in the last 12 months, with the average return to the seller being £24,337. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 75.

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Auction Results

Auction Date	Auction House	Location
March 2024	Bonhams New Bond Street	United Kingdom
December 2023	Forum Auctions London	United Kingdom
October 2023	Cheffins	United Kingdom
October 2022	Chorley’s	United Kingdom
October 2021	Christie's London	United Kingdom
March 2021	Sotheby's London	United Kingdom
December 2019	Bonhams New Bond Street	United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

Firebird, like the other works featuring stripes by pioneering British painter Bridget Riley, consists of vertical bands of colour in varying hues. One of the first prints in colour in Riley’s canon, Firebird occupies a significant place in her oeuvre. Displaying vertical, twisting bars of red, green and blue, separated by intervals of white space, in turn generate a powerful and spirited array of imagined colours for the viewer. This signed screen print was released in 1971 in an edition of 75.

Riley has previously suggested these horizontally-striped works should be read from left to right in order to fully appreciate the variations in tone between warmer and cooler hues. Each colour is selected in response to the colour it superposes: “I want to create a colour-form, not coloured forms”, Riley states. By varying the tones of the colours selected for Firebird, a rainbow effect emerges and the colours appear to blend and bleed into each other.

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