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It's What I'd Like To Be - Signed Print by Tracey Emin 1998 - MyArtBroker

It's What I'd Like To Be
Signed Print

Tracey Emin

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Medium: Lithograph

Edition size: 50

Year: 1998

Size: H 42cm x W 60cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Tracey Emin's It's What I'd Like To Be (signed) is estimated to be worth between £1,900 and £2,850. This lithograph print, created in 1998, has an auction history of four sales since its entry to the market on 5th June 2013. There have been no sales in the last 12 months and the hammer price and average annual growth rate are not available. This work is rare to the market, with an edition size of 50.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
July 2022Tate Ward Auctions United Kingdom
January 2019Phillips London United Kingdom
May 2018Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers United Kingdom
September 2017Sotheby's London United Kingdom
June 2013Bonhams Knightsbridge United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

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.

Emin’s drawings, which lie at the heart of her most vulnerable artistic creations, are filled with allegories and manifest how outstanding of a draughtswoman she really is. Her jagged lines convey pure emotion, technical proficiency and genuine interest in her craft. The rough, rapidly scrawled contours and scratchy handwriting at once articulate raw anxiety as well as carefree amusement. The many realities of our human lives are brought into question here as Emin utilises the most fragile art form to reflect sentiments and intellect. She reveals both the unique beauty and the disarray of existence.

Preceding Little Owl, It’s What I’d Like to Be is a delicate lithograph executed by Emin in 1998. This work is an early example of her intensely personal, honest and humorous artistic practice. Featuring the image of a baby deer, Emin here relies on the animal’s symbolic connotations alluding to gentleness, innocence and luck. The image of a deer is considered a good omen and represents the loving presence of a guiding spirit. Emin’s confessional drawing manifests herself as her own guardian in mammal form.

  • 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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