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Fighting For Love - Signed Print by Tracey Emin 1998 - MyArtBroker

Fighting For Love
Signed Print

Tracey Emin

£950-£1,450Value Indicator

$1,900-$2,850 Value Indicator

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¥8,500-¥13,500 Value Indicator

1,150-1,750 Value Indicator

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$1,200-$1,850 Value Indicator

34% AAGR

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Medium: Lithograph

Edition size: 300

Year: 1998

Size: H 30cm x W 21cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Tracey Emin’s Fighting For Love (signed) lithograph print, created in 1998, is estimated to be worth between £950 and £1,450. This artwork has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 34%. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £1,123, with a total of 1 artwork sold. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £806 in September 2021 to £1,123 in November 2024. This work has an auction history of 7 total sales since its entry to the market in March 2004. 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
November 2024Rago United States
July 2022Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers United Kingdom
September 2021Sotheby's Online United Kingdom
October 2015Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers United States
September 2015Bonhams Knightsbridge United Kingdom
July 2015Christie's New York United States
March 2004Bonhams Knightsbridge United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

Emin came to the fore of contemporary art in the 1990s through her distinctively visceral and intimate artworks, which speak to the universal themes of love, longing, loss, loneliness and pain. Her artworks oftentimes take the form of visual confessions, where the artist discloses details of her life or her feelings to the viewer, therefore putting her personal experiences and emotional life at the core of her oeuvre. Within this project, written text is not unusual, and is often paired with her minimal visual depictions to add further meaning to the images.

Fighting For Love is one such piece where the text not only predominates the image, but is in fact the only component of the artwork. The print reads as an open-ended letter written by the artist for the viewer to see. The text is a commentary on Emin’s fight for love, that claims: “when the fighting starts, I know that I have already lost … I can’t eat, I can’t sleep, my mind jumps from a grinding numbness to some crazy fucked up out of control day like hell … that’s how it is to live without love”. Through reading Emin’s words, the viewer is permeated by a sense of helplessness. However, it is precisely this intense emotional quality that makes works like Fighting for Love so popular amongst the wider public, in that they necessarily elicit an empathetic response from the viewer, who will relate to Emin’s words to a more or less personal level.