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Marriage Flag
Embroidery

Grayson Perry

£3,700-£5,500Value Indicator

$7,500-$11,000 Value Indicator

$6,500-$10,000 Value Indicator

¥35,000-¥50,000 Value Indicator

4,450-6,500 Value Indicator

$35,000-$50,000 Value Indicator

¥710,000-¥1,050,000 Value Indicator

$4,650-$7,000 Value Indicator

13% AAGR

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Medium: Embroidery

Edition size: 45

Year: 2019

Size: H 97cm x W 148cm

Signed: No

Format: Embroidery

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Grayson Perry's Marriage Flag (2019) is an unsigned embroidery artwork, estimated to be valued between £3,700 and £5,500. This artwork has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 11%. This artwork has an auction history of two sales since its entry to the market on 11th December 2019. The hammer price has shown steady growth, and the edition size of this artwork is limited to 45.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
January 2020Phillips London United Kingdom
December 2019Forum Auctions London United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

The embroidery was made in support of Koestler Arts, a UK-based charity active in the criminal justice system which seeks to encourage the detainees to participate in the arts.

In his typical manner, Perry uses here once again bright and colourful tones - in this case, the colours pink, red, blue, white and green dominate the scene - and an assembly of symbols and characters which do not follow a linear narrative to convey his societal commentaries. The work strikes in its celebratory tone of family life, which distinguishes it from other pieces like Six Snapshots Of Julie or The Vanity Of Small Differences, where Perry makes use of his distinctive satirical and dark humour.

In Marriage Flag, Perry weaves together the most classical of references, the story of Adam and Eve, with a traditional medium, that of embroidery, to convey and offer a positive message of hope.

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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