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A Name They Called Our Dad - Embroidery by Tracey Emin 2002 - MyArtBroker

A Name They Called Our Dad
Embroidery

Tracey Emin

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Medium: Embroidery

Edition size: 15

Year: 2002

Size: H 30cm x W 21cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Embroidery

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The value of Tracey Emin's A Name They Called Our Dad (signed) is estimated to be worth between £3,600 and £5,500. This artwork is an embroidery piece created in 2002 and is a rare artwork with an auction history of one sale on 21st October 2009. There have been no sales in the last 12 months or the last five years. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 15.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
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October 2009Bonhams Knightsbridge United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

Born in Croydon, south London, Emin was brought up in Margate, on the coast of Kent. Her parents never married as her father had a whole other separate and legally binding family elsewhere.

The artist’s work takes refuge in her art to deal with past and present obstacles, exploring the twists and turns of Emin’s personal life. Stylistically, the primary source of inspiration for the artist’s Childhood grouping are expressionist masters Edvard Munch and Egon Schiele. Their legacies offer an attractive element of catharsis for the intimate and confrontational nature of Emin’s creations. This collection of artworks has utilised two methods that command the strongest associations of domesticity and the feminine; the drawn and the embroidered.

Beneath the simplistic and traditional appearance, one finds stories about transgenerational trauma and the complexities of an intercontinental upbringing. A Name They Called Our Dad presents a diptych of two perspex box frames. On one side we find an embroidery of a petite red flower with a green stem and petals, while the other side of the work is adorned by Emin’s cursive handwriting. The text deals directly with the immigrant identities of Emin’s parents, her father’s particularly, presenting the artist’s innocent take on notions of otherness and belonging.

  • 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).