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You Can't Fuck A Shoe - Signed Print by Tracey Emin 2010 - MyArtBroker

You Can't Fuck A Shoe
Signed Print

Tracey Emin

£900-£1,300Value Indicator

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16% AAGR

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Medium: Etching

Edition size: 200

Year: 2010

Size: H 39cm x W 43cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Tracey Emin's You Can't Fuck A Shoe (signed) is estimated to be worth between £900 and £1,300. This etching print from 2010 has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 15%. Over the past 12 months, the artwork has sold twice, with an average selling price of £888. This work has a strong auction history, having been sold 8 times since its initial sale in May 2012. The hammer price has ranged from £577 in April 2024 to £1,800 in February 2022. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 200.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
June 2024Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers United Kingdom
April 2024SBI Art Auction Japan
November 2023Bonhams Online United Kingdom
June 2022Chiswick Auctions United Kingdom
February 2022Chiswick Auctions United Kingdom
January 2021Hessink’s Netherlands
September 2015Bonhams Knightsbridge United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

Synonymously witty and disturbing, You Can’t Fuck A Shoe is archetypal of Emin’s entire body of work. In her typically naive and sketchy style, Emin renders a pair of platform strappy heels. Underneath the sexy shoes are the words “You Can’t Fuck A Shoe” in Emin’s handwriting, perhaps as a satirical comment on the shoe as a fetish object. As a fetish object in the Freudian sense, shoes have a longstanding reputation in art history as being sexually suggestive - especially among the Surrealists. As Emin wryly suggests however, you can’t have sex with her platform heels, no matter how alluring they may be. As with many of Emin’s other prints and drawings, there is a rather infantile quality to this work, revealing her playful and ever explorational approach to sex.

  • 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).