She Watched
Signed Print

Name: She Watched
Brand: Tracey Emin
Rating: 5 (234 reviews)

Tracey Emin

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Medium: Lithograph

Edition size: 50

Year: 2017

Size: H 54cm x W 63cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Tracey Emin's She Watched, a signed lithograph print from 2017, is estimated to be worth between £1,200 and £1,800. Over the past five years, the hammer price ranges from £1,200 in June 2021 to £2,200 in September 2021. This artwork has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 6%. This work has a strong auction history, having been sold 3 times at auction since its initial sale in June 2021. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 50.

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Auction Results

Auction Date	Auction House	Location
April 2022	Bonhams Knightsbridge	United Kingdom
September 2021	Bonhams Knightsbridge	United Kingdom
June 2021	Phillips London	United Kingdom
April 2021	Bonhams Knightsbridge	United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

This ghostly lithograph was executed by Tracey Emin in 2017, and forms part of the Reclining Nudes collection. Emin frames the composition with a thin black line at the top of the work, hanging down to mark the corners of a room’s ceiling. Within this imagined room there is a bed - an iconic Emin motif - at the centre. A nude figure - likely Emin herself - appears sleeping on this bed, printed in a cloudy wash of grey. To the right and left of this focal point are other forms printed in the same grey wash, like ghosts crowding around the central figure on her bed.

Emin’s bed has been a motif that has haunted her career since her seminal installation My Bed in 1998. The bed is a subject that Emin has returned to in more subtle ways, but printed works like She Watched reveal her ongoing fascination with the intimate and personal space of the bedroom.

Within this work, Emin pictures a nude reclining figure on a simply rendered bed. Around the bed are three grey forms. While these forms are not distinctly figurative, they appear like ghostly presences and therefore speak to Emin’s spirituality. Emin’s interest in mysticism has led her art to reflect a sense of transcendence, particularly as she has matured. While Emin’s bed of 1998 was a site of personal trauma and isolation, She Watched reveals Emin’s increasing awareness that even when she is alone she is never truly lonely.

Tracey Emin, born in 1963, stands as a fearless provocateur in the contemporary art scene. A trailblazer of the Young British Artists (YBA) movement in the late 1980s, the artist has sparked conversation and controversy for decades. Confronting themes of love, trauma and femininity with great vulnerability, Emin's work is a visceral tapestry of her life and has forged an intimate dialogue between artist and audience. In 1999, this raw approach to storytelling won her a nomination to the Turner Prize and, in 2007, it got her a coveted spot as a Royal Academician at the Royal Academy of Arts (RA).

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