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True Love Always Wins
Signed Print

Tracey Emin

£2,900-£4,350Value Indicator

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Medium: Lithograph

Edition size: 300

Year: 2016

Size: H 60cm x W 76cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Tracey Emin's True Love Always Wins (signed) is estimated to be worth between £2,900 and £4,350. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £2,900, across 2 sales. In the last five years, the hammer price has varied from £1,200 in March 2020 to £4,200 in June 2021. This artwork has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 4%. This work is a lithograph print, created in 2016 and is part of a limited edition of 300. True Love Always Wins has an established auction history, having been sold 11 times at auction since its initial sale in December 2017.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
December 2024Tate Ward Auctions United Kingdom
November 2024Bonhams New Bond Street United Kingdom
April 2023Bonhams New Bond Street United Kingdom
February 2023Forum Auctions London United Kingdom
July 2021Forum Auctions London United Kingdom
June 2021Phillips London United Kingdom
March 2021Sotheby's London United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

As one of the more controversial and experimental Young British Artists of the 1990s, Tracey Emin has been commissioned by the British government to create works that offer her distinctive style and ethos. To commemorate the participation of Team GB at the 2016 Olympic Games at Rio de Janeiro, Emin created this print to celebrate the sporting event as a triumph of love over division.

With Rio’s iconic statue of Christ The Redeemer at the pinnacle of the composition, the figure’s outstretched arms point to the hopeful words “True Love Always Wins” on either side in Emin’s distinctive handwriting. The twists and turns of the path that lead down the mountain at the centre of the work are perhaps representative of the many challenges and obstacles faced by the athletes, as well as in life. However, as the title of the work suggests, love always prevails and is the true victory of the Olympics. Emin has always used her art to show love as a uniting force among people. Even though this print celebrates the participation of Team GB in the 2016 Olympics, Emin’s lithograph focuses primarily on the host of the Games. For Emin, the borders between nations and the barriers between languages is no competition for love. True Love Always Wins is therefore a celebration of the Olympic Games as an institution which unites people across the globe, and the prevailing power of love.

  • 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).