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Tattoo - Signed Print by Tracey Emin 2002 - MyArtBroker

Tattoo
Signed Print

Tracey Emin

£500-£750Value Indicator

$1,000-$1,500 Value Indicator

$900-$1,350 Value Indicator

¥4,600-¥7,000 Value Indicator

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$650-$950 Value Indicator

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Medium: Digital Print

Edition size: 200

Year: 2002

Size: H 21cm x W 30cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Tracey Emin’s Tattoo (signed) is estimated to be worth between £500 and £750. Over the past five years, the hammer price ranges from £650 in May 2020 to £800 in December 2020. This digital print artwork, created in 2002, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 5%. This work has an auction history of 9 total sales since its entry to the market in November 2007. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 200.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
July 2022Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers United Kingdom
December 2020Sotheby's London United Kingdom
May 2020Forum Auctions London United Kingdom
November 2019Forum Auctions London United Kingdom
May 2018Sworders United Kingdom
November 2017Bonhams Knightsbridge United Kingdom
December 2016Cornette de Saint Cyr Paris France

Meaning & Analysis

Known as part of the British Young Group and as the Enfant terrible of British art, Emin is one of the most prominent female artists to have surfaced on to the contemporary art scene. Emin’s artworks have gained visibility thanks to their raw and confrontational quality, through which the artist articulates streams of consciousness, often juxtaposing written and visual language. Tattoo is no exception to this production, and exemplifies the ways in which image, in this case four candid Polaroids, and text come together in Emin’s art.

Tattoo is a diptych composed of a handwritten letter on the left side and four images of the artist’s body on the right side. Three of the images capture Emin’s tattoos, a bird, a scorpion and an anchor, whilst the remaining one presents an enlarged image of the artist’s face, with an attention to her forehead and eyes, scrutinising the viewer. Next to the images, the text expresses Emin’s wish to consider her tattoos as scars, as visual “memories of the past”, which remind her of the juvenile years in which she had them done, “too young and too stupid to think beyond 40, and too vain to consider old age”. In the artwork, Emin revisits the desires of when she was younger, making the viewer an active spectator to her reflections on her past self.

  • 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).