Bridget Riley
Print for Chicago 8 (from Conspiracy, The Artist as Witness Portfolio)


1971
screenprint in three colors on Arches paper
sheet: 24 h × 18 w in (61 × 46 cm)
image: 20.25 h × 15 w in (51 × 38 cm)

This work is one of 12 works contributed to the Conspiracy, The Artist as Witness portfolio published to help raise defense funds for the Chicago Eight, activists who were charged as a result of the antiwar demonstrations at the August 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Signed, dated and numbered to lower left margin 'Bridget Riley 110/150 '71'. This work is number 110 from the edition of 150 printed by Kelpra Studio, London and published by Center of Constitutional Rights, New York. Sold with digital copy of a certificate of authenticity issued by Alex Rosenberg Gallery, New York.

Provenance: Alex Rosenberg Gallery, New York | Acquired from the previous in 1981 by the present owner

Literature: Tomassini/Gubay BRS 16

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