Hurt Heart
Signed Print

Name: Hurt Heart
Brand: Tracey Emin
Rating: 5 (233 reviews)

Tracey Emin

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Medium: Etching

Edition size: 50

Year: 2022

Size: H 94cm x W 74cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Tracey Emin's Hurt Heart (signed) is estimated to be worth between £6,000 and £9,000. This etching print, created in 2022, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 6%. This work has an auction history of two sales, both within the last 12 months. The hammer price over the past five years has ranged from £6,000 in June 2024 to £6,500 in February 2025. This demonstrates an average return to the seller of £5,312. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 50.

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Auction Results

Auction Date	Auction House	Location	Hammer Price	Return to Seller	Buyer Paid
February 2025	Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers	United Kingdom
June 2024	Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers	United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

Hurt Heart (2022) is a lithograph by Tracey Emin which forms part of her A Journey to Death series, made during a period marked by illness and recovery. Like much of Emin’s practice, it draws on personal experience to touch on broader questions of pain, survival, and the fragility of the body.

The image shows a figure with a tilted head and heavy-lidded eyes, surrounded by tangled, almost frantic lines. One side of the face is obscured in a dark blur; the other remains open, vulnerable. The marks feel urgent, sometimes unresolved, as though the figure is caught in a moment of emotional disarray. Despite its looseness, the composition feels tightly held. There’s a sense of the image pressing against its own edges, resisting form even as it seeks it.

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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