Name: Large Fragment 2
Brand: Bridget Riley
Rating: 5 (234 reviews)

Track auction value trend

The value of Bridget Riley’s Large Fragment 2 (signed) is estimated to be worth between £23,000 and £35,000. This screenprint has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 35%. This work is part of a limited edition of 50 and has an auction history of two sales since its entry to the market in January 2019. The hammer price over the past five years has ranged from £11,995 in the last 12 months to an average of £5,570, demonstrating the potential for value growth.

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October 2023

Sotheby's New York

United States

January 2019

Phillips London

United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

Large Fragment 2 (2009), by British Op-Artist Bridget Riley, was released in a signed edition of 50 screen prints. Large Fragment 2 is one of a small handful of works that uniquely enlarge the pattern—of curved verticals and slanting diagonals—that characterizes prints from Riley’s Lozenges series.

This print was arrived at through Riley's process of making studies for other artworks; she has continually expressed the importance of these preparatory studies in the realisation of her final works. The enlarged, undulating wedges and loose sense of pattern in Large Fragment 2 contributes to the artwork’s calming sense of rhythm. The diagonal lines underpinning the composition of other works within the series are still discernible here, now with greater width.