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See How They Grow
Signed Print

Tracey Emin

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Medium: Etching

Edition size: 100

Year: 2010

Size: H 25cm x W 20cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Tracey Emin’s See How They Grow (signed) is estimated to be worth between £1,050 and £1,600. This etching print, created in 2010, is a rare artwork with an auction history of one sale in November 2017. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 100.

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Auction Results

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November 2017Sworders United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

Small illustrations of lively bunny rabbits are a subject we would expect from the world of children’s books written by the likes of Beatrix Potter. However, Emin’s See How They Grow transforms the innocent subject into one that is sexually suggestive and crude.

This editioned etching uses the animated rabbit to make a tongue-in-cheek dig at the penises she represents. A recurring theme in Emin’s body of prints, she often depicts the phallus severed from the body and a being with a life of its own. In this particular etching, Emin’s lewd bunny rabbit waters two penises with her watering can, marvelling at their growth. The work is characteristically witty, and Emin urges her viewers to not take sex - or her art - too seriously.

  • 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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