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Recipe For Humanity - Embroidery by Grayson Perry 2005 - MyArtBroker

Recipe For Humanity
Embroidery

Grayson Perry

£7,000-£10,500Value Indicator

$14,000-$21,000 Value Indicator

$12,500-$18,000 Value Indicator

¥60,000-¥90,000 Value Indicator

8,500-12,500 Value Indicator

$70,000-$100,000 Value Indicator

¥1,340,000-¥2,010,000 Value Indicator

$8,500-$13,000 Value Indicator

16% AAGR

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Medium: Embroidery

Edition size: 250

Year: 2005

Size: H 49cm x W 37cm

Signed: No

Format: Embroidery

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Grayson Perry's Recipe For Humanity, an embroidery artwork from 2005, is estimated to be worth between £7,000 and £10,500. This work, which has an unsigned signature, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 16%. In the last 12 months, the hammer price has ranged from £4,500 in November 2022 to £4,800 in April 2021. This piece has a strong auction history, having been sold 9 times at auction since its initial sale in July 2013. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 250.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
November 2022Bonhams New Bond Street United Kingdom
April 2021Bonhams Knightsbridge United Kingdom
December 2019Bonhams New Bond Street United Kingdom
September 2018Forum Auctions London United Kingdom
February 2018Sworders United Kingdom
December 2017Bonhams New Bond Street United Kingdom
November 2017Bonhams Edinburgh United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

The undertone of the embroidery is sexually explicit, but this decadent and playful ambience, which is in tone with Perry’s characteristic taste for irreverence and jolly provocation, is soon explained by the poem accompanying the images. Initially reading as a commentary on the absence of God, the poem is an epicurean invitation to seek pleasure while on Earth, defiant of what shall come afterwards: “Impose thy will upon earth’s mess/ Else your life is meaningless/ No hell below no heaven upon / live life now and act with love”.

Perhaps one of Perry’s most provoking and unexpectedly explicit works, this embroidery reveals itself to be steeped with philosophical and historical references that endow it with multiple layers of meaning. As the title suggests, through this work Perry invites the viewer to contemplate life with lightness, serenity and humour, as its maker does.

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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