My Heart Is With You Always
My Heart Is With You Always
Signed Print
Tracey Emin
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Medium: Lithograph
Edition size: 50
Year: 2015
Size: H 41cm x W 41cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Location | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2023 | Bonhams Knightsbridge | United Kingdom | |||
| September 2022 | Bonhams Knightsbridge | United Kingdom | |||
| December 2021 | Bonhams Knightsbridge | United Kingdom | |||
| April 2019 | Tate Ward Auctions | United Kingdom | |||
| July 2018 | Christie's New York | United States |
Meaning & Analysis
This signed lithograph from 2015 is a limited edition of 50 from Tracey Emin’s Writing collection. The lithograph shows a heart-shaped red embroidery that carries within it the words “My heart is with you always” sewn in bright red stitch.
Writing has recently come to enjoy a privileged position within scholarly and critical consideration of Tracey Emin’s works. Whilst much has been said about her drawings and paintings, not to mention her installation pieces, Emin’s writings remain an uncharted territory that in the past few years has captivated the public. The immediacy and raw honesty of Emin’s writings are arguably even more striking than her visual depictions. Written text already features in many of her visual depictions, for instance in her Polaroid series, but it is only in her Neon series and in works like My Heart Is With You Always where Emin’s words occupy the entirety of the work.
My Heart Is With You Always was made in 2015 as both a pink and blue embroidery on a linen napkin, and as a neon sign. The image presents a blue-coloured heart with a red-coloured writing inside of it that reads “my heart is with you always”. This sentence, however short, carries within it all the emotional poignancy of Emin’s works, which tackle universal thematics of love, loss and pain, best captured through her sharp and now-iconic language.
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).
