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No Substitute For Your Love - Signed Print by Tracey Emin 2003 - MyArtBroker

No Substitute For Your Love
Signed Print

Tracey Emin

£500-£750Value Indicator

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$4,900-$7,500 Value Indicator

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Medium: Etching

Edition size: 300

Year: 2003

Size: H 47cm x W 51cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Tracey Emin's No Substitute For Your Love (signed) is estimated to be worth between £500 and £750. This etching print, created in 2003, has an auction history of 13 total sales since its entry to the market in April 2006. The hammer price over the past five years has ranged from £460 in April 2023 to £1,300 in April 2021. The average annual growth rate of this work is -5%. 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
January 2025Phillips London United Kingdom
April 2023Burstow & Hewett Abbey Auction Gallery United Kingdom
July 2021Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers United Kingdom
April 2021Bonhams Knightsbridge United Kingdom
June 2020Bonhams Knightsbridge United Kingdom
May 2020Forum Auctions London United Kingdom
May 2017Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers 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. She is an expressionist whose jagged lines convey her pure emotion, technical proficiency and genuine interest in her craft. These drawings are fierce, devoted and exquisitely constructed. There is a surprising playfulness lurking beneath even the most complex subject matter, as her art finds intellectual and cultural validation for her curious existential state.

Emin’s No Substitute for Your Love from 2003 was inspired by German painter and portraitist Hans Holbein's Portrait of a Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling from the late 1520s. The artist exchanges the painter’s Northern Renaissance style for her typically scratchy and hesitant lines. Moreover, Emin removes the human element, transforming her illustration into a nature study showcasing only the faint imprint of a squirrel surrounded by acorn branches. In her interpretation of a classic, Emin’s drawing functions as a memento of absent 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).

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