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Love Is What You Want - Signed Print by Tracey Emin 2015 - MyArtBroker

Love Is What You Want
Signed Print

Tracey Emin

£1,150-£1,700Value Indicator

$2,250-$3,350 Value Indicator

$2,050-$3,050 Value Indicator

¥10,500-¥16,000 Value Indicator

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$11,500-$17,000 Value Indicator

¥220,000-¥320,000 Value Indicator

$1,450-$2,150 Value Indicator

-1% AAGR

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Medium: Lithograph

Edition size: 500

Year: 2015

Size: H 70cm x W 50cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Tracey Emin’s Love Is What You Want (signed) is estimated to be worth between £1,150 and £1,700. This lithograph print, created in 2015, has an auction history of 22 total sales since its entry to the market in October 2016. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £1,633, across 3 sales. The hammer price over the past five years has ranged from £800 in August 2020 to £4,000 in September 2021. The average annual growth rate of this artwork is currently -1%. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 500.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
November 2024Bonhams New Bond Street United Kingdom
June 2024Tate Ward Auctions United Kingdom
May 2024Bonhams New Bond Street United Kingdom
December 2023Bonhams Knightsbridge United Kingdom
November 2023Bonhams Online United Kingdom
April 2023Bonhams New Bond Street United Kingdom
March 2023Tate Ward Auctions United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

Emin is known for the confessional nature of her art, bringing her life and feelings to the forefront of the work. The confessional quality of Emin's works take many different forms, from written to visual. Based off an earlier art work of the same name (2011), Love Is What You Want sees Emin manipulate neon tubes to mimic her own handwriting, reinforcing the personal nature of her work.

Love Is What You Want has had one of the most favourable exhibition histories among Emin’s neons. The original art piece created in 2011 bore the name of the title of Emin’s first retrospective show which was held at the Hayward Gallery in the summer of that same year. The title of the work is an indirect quotation from Marc Bolan, one of Emin’s favourite musicians, who in his song Planet Queen, rendered with his band T. Rex, claimed “Love is what she want”. Exhibited as part of the Hayward exhibition, the work was later part of the I Promise To Love You Project, in which Emin was asked to present a series of works in Times Square on the occasion of the Midnight Moment of February 2013.

  • 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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