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You Can't Fuck A Shoe - Signed Print by Tracey Emin 2010 - MyArtBroker

You Can't Fuck A Shoe
Signed Print

Tracey Emin

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39 x 43cm, Edition of 200, Etching

Medium: Etching
Edition size: 200
Year: 2010
Size: H 39cm x W 43cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: June 2024

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Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
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Buyer Paid
June 2024
Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers
United Kingdom
$1,300
$1,500
$2,000
April 2024
SBI Art Auction
Japan
November 2023
Bonhams Online
United Kingdom
June 2022
Chiswick Auctions
United Kingdom
February 2022
Chiswick Auctions
United Kingdom
January 2021
Hessink’s
Netherlands
September 2015
Bonhams Knightsbridge
United Kingdom
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The value of Tracey Emin’s You Can't Fuck A Shoe (signed) is estimated to be worth between £1,200 and £1,850. This etching print from 2010 has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 5%. This work has an auction history of 8 total sales since its entry to the market in May 2012. The hammer price over the past 12 months has ranged from £577 in April 2024 to £1,800 in February 2022. The average return to the seller over the past five years has been £1,111. This work is part of a limited edition of 200.

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Meaning & Analysis

Synonymously witty and disturbing, You Can’t Fuck A Shoe is archetypal of Emin’s entire body of work. In her typically naive and sketchy style, Emin renders a pair of platform strappy heels. Underneath the sexy shoes are the words “You Can’t Fuck A Shoe” in Emin’s handwriting, perhaps as a satirical comment on the shoe as a fetish object. As a fetish object in the Freudian sense, shoes have a longstanding reputation in art history as being sexually suggestive - especially among the Surrealists. As Emin wryly suggests however, you can’t have sex with her platform heels, no matter how alluring they may be. As with many of Emin’s other prints and drawings, there is a rather infantile quality to this work, revealing her playful and ever explorational approach to sex.

  • 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).