Bridget Riley - Rose, Rose, 2012 London Olympics silkscreen (Hand Signed by Bridget Riley and dozens of Olympic medalists), with official hologram

Bridget Riley - Rose, Rose, 2012 London Olympics silkscreen (Hand Signed by Bridget Riley and dozens of Olympic medalists), with official hologram

Silkscreen poster with hologram (HAND SIGNED by Bridget Riley and dozens of Olympic athletes)

Nobody else in the entire world has this print!
This is an absolutely unique piece of art and Olympic history - a unique convergence of British Op Art and Olympic history, and a singular, unreproducible artifact
Rose, Rose, this original Bridget Riley silkscreen poster with official Olympic hologram was published on the occasion of the 2012 London Olympics.
It is, exceptionally, uniquely hand signed by Bridget Riley along with dozens of Olympic winners and contenders, including gold, silver and bronze medalists - some historic.
It also is a culturally layered object, as years later some of the medals were disqualified and others re-assigned
Fascinatingly, in retrospect, years later some of the winners were stripped of their medals, while others were upgraded
Boldly signed by Bridget Riley in blue marker lower left
Many of the athletes signed their names with their personal best times
Some of the many athletes who signed, along with their best times, include:
Reese Hoffa
Won the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
Personal best: 22:43
Valerie Adams originally won the silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics but was promoted to the gold medal after the initial Olympic champion, Nadzeya Astapchuk, failed two drug tests, one a day before the event and the second on the day of the event
Hammer thrower Betty Heidler, bronze medal winner, waited seven years to get the correct medal – silver - she won at London 2012. Heidler's promotion to silver came after the original 'winner', Tatyana Lysenko of Russia – who also signed this poster - was disqualified for doping by the IOC in 2016 and stripped of her medal, after her control samples were re-analyse
79.42 – Betty Heidler’s personal best throw
Russian hammer thrower Tatyana Lysenko was stripped of her 2012 London Olympics gold medal in 2016 after a re-analysis of her samples tested positive for the prohibited steroid turinabol.
78.18
Aries Merritt (12.92)
Aries Merritt (born July 24, 1985) is an American track and field athlete who specialized in the 110 metre hurdles, and currently holds the world record in that event with a time of 12.80 s set on September 7, 2012. He won the gold medal in the 110 metre hurdles at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Bob Beamon
Jumpied 8.90 m
1968 (Mexico City)
Kellie Wells won the bronze medal in the 100m hurdles with a time of 12.48. Wells, a Richmond, Va. native ...
Discus thrower Russia's Darya Pishchalnikova had a throw of 70.69 , but was annulled after she later failed a drug test.
Included also with this work is a sheet with the printed names of the athletes' signatures (see attached)

BRIDGET RILEY BIOGRAPHY
Since 1961, Bridget Riley (b. 1931) has focused exclusively on seemingly simple geometric forms, such as lines, circles, curves, and squares, arrayed across a surface—whether a canvas, a wall, or paper—according to an internal logic. The resulting compositions actively engage the viewer, at times triggering sensations of vibration and movement. This sense of dynamism was explored to great effect in the artist's earliest black-and-white paintings, which established the basis of her enduring formal vocabulary. In 1967, Riley introduced color into her work, thus expanding the perceptual and optical possibilities of her compositions.

Riley was born in London, where she attended Goldsmiths College from 1949 to 1952 and the Royal College of Art from 1952 to 1955.

Riley’s first solo exhibitions were held at Gallery One, London, in 1962 and 1963, followed by two exhibitions at Robert Fraser Gallery, London, in 1966 and 1967. She was also at that time included in numerous group exhibitions such as Towards Art?, Royal College of Art London (1962); The New Generation, Whitechapel Gallery, London (1964); and Painting and Sculpture of a Decade 1954–1964, Tate Gallery, London (1964). In 1965, her work was included in the now-seminal group exhibition The Responsive Eye, organized by William Seitz at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 1968, she represented Great Britain at the 34th Venice Biennale (along with Philip King), where she was the first living British painter to win the prestigious International Prize for Painting. Her first retrospective, covering the period from 1961 to 1970, opened at the Kunstverein Hannover in 1971 and subsequently traveled to Kunsthalle Bern; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin; and the Hayward Gallery, London.
More recent significant solo presentations include those at Dia Center for the Arts, New York (2000-2001); Museum Haus Esters and Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany (2002); Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2004-2005); Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2008); Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (traveled to Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery; Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery; Southampton City Art Gallery; 2009-2010); National Gallery, London (2010-2011); Art Institute of Chicago (2014-2015); The Courtauld Gallery, London (2015); De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, England (traveled to Gemeentemuseum, The Hague; 2015); Graves Gallery, Museum Sheffield, England (2016); Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand (2017); and the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Sakura, Japan (2018).

Bridget Riley: Perceptual Abstraction was on view at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, in 2022. The traveling exhibition Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist’s Studio, which included drawings from the late 1940s to the present day, originated at the Art Institute of Chicago and was subsequently on view at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and the Morgan Library, New York, in 2023. A solo exhibition of Riley’s work, Point de départ, is currently on display at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, through January 2026.
A large-scale wall painting by Riley entitled Messengers was unveiled in 2019 at the National Gallery in London. Also in 2019, a solo presentation of the artist’s work that was organized by the National Galleries of Scotland opened at the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, and traveled to the Hayward Gallery, London (2019-2020).

In 1974, Riley was named a CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) and in 1999, appointed the Companion of Honour. In 2003, the artist was awarded the Praemium Imperiale in Tokyo. She received the Kaiser Ring of the City of Goslar, Germany, in 2009 and the Rubens Prize of the City of Siegen, Germany, in 2012.

David Zwirner has worked with Riley since 2014, and the gallery's inaugural exhibition of her work, Bridget Riley: The Stripe Paintings 1961-2014, was held in London that year. In 2015, a career spanning survey was presented at the gallery in New York, and in 2018, the London gallery presented Riley’s recent works from the last four years. Also on view at the gallery’s London location were Bridget Riley – Studies: 1984-1997 in 2020 and Bridget Riley: Past into Present in 2021. Riley lives and works in London, Cornwall, and France.

Work by the artist is included in museum and public collections worldwide, including Art Institute of Chicago; Arts Council, United Kingdom; British Council, United Kingdom; Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York; Dallas Museum of Art; Dia Art Foundation, New York; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Kunstmuseum Bern; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and Tate, United Kingdom.
-Courtesy David Zwirner