Screenprint on perspex
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
Fragments
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/bridget-riley-1845" aria-label="More by Bridget Riley" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Bridget Riley</a>
Fragment 46
Purchased 1970
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
order
repetition
symmetry
relief screenprint perspex
23 May 2015 – 27 September 2015
2015-09-27
23 May 2015 – 27 September 2015
2015-09-27
2015-05-23
Tate St Ives (St Ives, UK)
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2015-05-23
Images moving out onto space
Exhibition
9 July 2018 – 12 July 2020
2020-07-12
9 July 2018 – 12 July 2020
2020-07-12
2018-07-09
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2018-07-09
Op Art in Focus
Collection based display
3 March 2022 – 24 July 2022
2022-07-24
3 March 2022 – 24 July 2022
2022-07-24
2022-03-03
Yale Center for British Art (New Haven, USA)
http://ycba.yale.edu/index.asp
2022-03-03
Bridget Riley
Loan-out
Untitled [Fragment 4/6]
image: 699 × 672 mm
Purchased 1970
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<b>Bridget Riley b. 1934</b>
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<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/riley-untitled-fragment-1-7-p07104" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07104</span></a>-<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/riley-untitled-fragment-7-5-p07110" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07110</span></a> Fragments 1965</p>
<p>Each print inscribed ‘Riley 65’ b.l.<br/>Screenprints on plexiglass.<br/><span>P07104</span> Fragment 1/7: 26<span>½</span><b> </b>x 33 (67<b>.</b>3 x 83<b>.</b>8).<br/><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/riley-untitled-fragment-2-10-p07105" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07105</span></a> Fragment 2/10: 28 x 27<span>¼</span> (71<b>.</b>1 x 69<b>.</b>2).<br/><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/riley-untitled-fragment-3-11-p07106" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07106</span></a> Fragment 3/11: 24<span>¾</span> x 31<span>¿</span> (62<b>.</b>9 x 81).<br/><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/riley-untitled-fragment-4-6-p07107" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07107</span></a> Fragment 4/6: 28 x 27 (71<b>.</b>1 x 68<b>.</b>6).<br/><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/riley-untitled-fragment-5-8-p07108" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07108</span></a> Fragment 5/8: 24<span>¾</span><b> </b>x 32 (62<b>.</b>9 x 81<b>.</b>2).<br/><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/riley-untitled-fragment-6-9-p07109" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07109</span></a> Fragment 6/9: 29<span>¼</span><b> </b>x 29 (74<b>.</b>3 x73<b>.</b>7).<br/><span>P07110</span> Fragment 7/5: 20 x 39 (50<b>.</b>8 x 99).<br/>Purchased from the Rowan Gallery (Gytha Trust) 1970.<br/>Lit: Maurice de Sausmarez, Bridget Riley, 1970, repr. (iv) pl.47, (vi) pl.II.</p>
<p>The title ‘Fragments’ is significant in that most of the prints consist of images which the artist arrived at through making studies for paintings. (She was at this period working almost exclusively in black and white). In selecting perspex as the ground Riley was clearly interested in setting a dense black image upon an intensely white and brilliant surface.</p>
<p>Sausmarez wrote of <span>P07107</span>, that it belongs to the same group as ‘Disturbance’ 1964, ‘Static’ 1966, ‘Deny’ 1967, and ‘19 Greys’, silkscreen prints. The inner oval remains a constant vertical while the outer oval moves slowly but subtly.</p>
<p>This suite was published by the Robert Fraser Gallery and printed at the Kelpra Studio in an edition of 75.</p>
<p>Published in<i> The Tate Gallery Report 1970–1972</i>, London 1972.</p>
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emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities order repetition symmetry