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Tracey Emin

Suffer Love Signed Print

Suffer Love

Tracey Emin

Suffer Love
Signed Print

Name: Suffer Love
Brand: Tracey Emin
Rating: 5 (233 reviews)

Tracey Emin

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Medium: Etching

Edition size: 250

Year: 2009

Size: H 11cm x W 15cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Tracey Emin’s Suffer Love (signed) is estimated to be worth between £1,600 and £2,400. This etching print from 2009 has an auction history of seven total sales since its entry to the market on 12th May 2020. In the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £671 in August 2020 to £3,200 in July 2022. The average annual growth rate of this artwork is -4%. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 250.

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Auction Results

Auction Date	Auction House	Location
April 2024	Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers	United Kingdom
July 2023	Toovey's	United Kingdom
March 2023	Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers	United Kingdom
July 2022	Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers	United Kingdom
September 2021	Sotheby's Online	United Kingdom
August 2020	Wilson55	United Kingdom
May 2020	Tate Ward Auctions	United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

Suffer Love is a 2009 etching by Tracey Emin, released in an edition of 250. At the centre of a white background, Emin captured her nude form in blue ink in the midst of masturbation. True to her spontaneous and sketchy aesthetic, the leg to the left of the composition is cut off and therefore gives the work an impulsive appeal typical of her oeuvre.

This sexually charged etching formed part of Emin’s White Cube exhibition Those Who Suffer Love. This particular work formed part of an animation of similar prints, which when played together brought to life the act of masturbation caught in each etching. In an interview for the exhibition, Emin explains that she “didn’t want to put my face on the figure because it’s not about me. It’s about the idea of a woman which is important”.

The exhibition in its entirety is about Emin’s fears around losing her “sexual energy”, and the animation from which this etching originates is a celebration of that sexual energy which has been so integral to her life and work. Through this self-exploration of her own body and sexual pleasure, Emin makes peace with this changing outlook on sex and lust. Like much of her work, Suffer Love is confessional and meditative, and Emin gives us an intimate glimpse of her hopes and fears.

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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