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If I Could Just Go Back And Start Again - Signed Print by Tracey Emin 2005 - MyArtBroker

If I Could Just Go Back And Start Again
Signed Print

Tracey Emin

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Medium: Lithograph

Edition size: 1000

Year: 2005

Size: H 60cm x W 84cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Tracey Emin's If I Could Just Go Back And Start Again (signed) is estimated to be worth between £550 to £800. This lithograph print, created in 2005, has shown consistent value growth since its first sale in February 2018. Over the past five years, the hammer price has remained steady, with an average annual growth rate of 2%. This work is somewhat rare, having been sold twice at auction. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 1,000.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
September 2021Sotheby's Online United Kingdom
February 2018Thomaston Place Auction Galleries United States

Meaning & Analysis

Anyone familiar with Emin’s body of self-portraits will know that the artist rarely depicts her own face, usually opting to leave the space of her head blank or emotively scrawl over it. In the case of If I Could Just Go Back And Start Again however, Emin pays particular attention to her portrait, crafting her demure gaze and smile from a series of lines.

In a 2009 Guardian newspaper article, Emin selected this work as one of her six favourite drawings. Given her frontal pose and an unprecedented focus on her face, this work emerges as one of Emin’s most self-explorational and confrontational.

  • 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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