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Suffer Love - Signed Print by Tracey Emin 2009 - MyArtBroker

Suffer Love
Signed Print

Tracey Emin

£1,150-£1,700Value Indicator

$2,250-$3,350 Value Indicator

$2,050-$3,050 Value Indicator

¥10,500-¥16,000 Value Indicator

1,400-2,050 Value Indicator

$11,500-$17,000 Value Indicator

¥220,000-¥320,000 Value Indicator

$1,450-$2,150 Value Indicator

-6% AAGR

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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 £1,150 and £1,700. This etching print, created in 2009, has an auction history of 7 total sales since its entry to the market in May 2020. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £1,400, across a total of 1 sale. The artwork has demonstrated a negative average annual growth rate of -6% and has shown variability in its hammer price, ranging from £671 in August 2020 to £3,200 in July 2022. This work is part of a limited edition of 250.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
April 2024Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers United Kingdom
July 2023Toovey's United Kingdom
March 2023Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers United Kingdom
July 2022Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers United Kingdom
September 2021Sotheby's Online United Kingdom
August 2020Wilson55 United Kingdom
May 2020Tate Ward Auctions United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

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).