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For You
Signed Print

Tracey Emin

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Medium: Etching

Edition size: 300

Year: 2010

Size: H 10cm x W 14cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Tracey Emin’s For You, a signed etching from 2010, is estimated to be worth between £1,200 and £1,800. This artwork has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 2%. This is a popular work, having been sold 3 times at auction since its initial sale in May 2012. Over the past five years, the hammer price has varied from £1,200 to £1,800. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 300.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
March 2021Sotheby's London United Kingdom
November 2018Sotheby's London United Kingdom
May 2012Bonhams Knightsbridge United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

British artist Tracey Emin was born in south London in 1963, into the thick of a blooming technicolour age referred to as ‘The Swinging Sixties’. The period marked the beginning of a youth-driven cultural revolution, besides marking the birth of third-wave feminism.

The evidence of Emin’s talent is clear to see on a sheet of paper. Her jagged lines and scattered dots convey her pure emotion, technical proficiency and genuine interest in her craft. Her ardent interest in human sentiments and conditions is captured perfectly through the most fragile art form of all. Her drawings are designed to reveal both the unique beauty and the disarray of existence.

Emin’s For You was completed in 2010. The work was executed as a photogravure etching in blue, a particularly delicate and dextrous method also referred to as intaglio printmaking or photo-mechanical process. With the help of a rich velvety matte surface and luminous halftones, Emin produces an intensely tactile image. The piece depicts and is dedicated to, the artist’s most beloved furry companion, her cat Docket. Composed of blue dots on a white backdrop, the work captures the cat as a ghost almost, a faded imprint, a sheer memory.

  • 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).

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