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Britain Is Best
Embroidery

Grayson Perry

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Medium: Embroidery

Edition size: 20

Year: 2014

Size: H 120cm x W 100cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Embroidery

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The value of Grayson Perry's Britain Is Best (signed) is estimated to be worth between £45,000 and £70,000. This embroidery artwork, created in 2014, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 5%. This is a rare artwork with an auction history of two total sales since its entry to the market in September 2017. The hammer price has ranged from £43,750 to £48,750. This artwork is part of a limited edition of 20.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
September 2020Phillips London United Kingdom
September 2017Sotheby's London United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

The artist made the embroidery after filming his tv series Who Are You in Belfast and was inspired by a gathering of Unionists marching across the streets celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Ulster Volunteer Forces. An eclectic mind, Perry is known for working across media and practices, ranging from tv to art to podcasts, and for weaving the stories and characters he encounters throughout into his pieces, as exemplified by The Vanity Of Small Differences. In this case, the artwork constitutes a playful and whimsical visual translation of the artist’s own experience with the Unionists. He commented that whilst touched, the artist could not help but find a certain degree of irony in this patriotic scene, claiming that being extremely patriotic is, in fact, not a British trait. With this in mind, Perry envisioned an artwork that could work like a flag or a banner to be carried out across the marches.

As per his distinctive style, Perry’s work mixes several ironic elements with cheerful colours, while simultaneously retaining the social and political message and content that distinguishes Perry’s unique practice from any other.

The highest value realised for a work by Grayson Perry was in October 2017, when I Want To Be An Artist fetched £632,750 at Christie's, London. The values achieved for Perry's work at auction regularly land in the hundreds of thousands of pounds.

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