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About To Fly - Signed Print by Tracey Emin 2014 - MyArtBroker

About To Fly
Signed Print

Tracey Emin

£2,150-£3,200Value Indicator

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30 x 33cm, Edition of 200, Etching

Medium: Etching

Edition size: 200

Year: 2014

Size: H 30cm x W 33cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

Last Auction: April 2024

Value Trend:

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April 2024
Lyon & Turnbull Edinburgh
United Kingdom
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September 2022
Bonhams Knightsbridge
United Kingdom
January 2022
Phillips London
United Kingdom
September 2018
Chiswick Auctions
United Kingdom
September 2016
Wilson55
United Kingdom
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The value of Tracey Emin’s About To Fly (signed) is estimated to be worth between £2,150 and £3,200. This etching print, created in 2014, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 4%. This work has a steady auction history, having been sold 5 times at auction since its initial sale in September 2016. In the last 12 months, the average selling price was £1,915, across 1 total sale. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £1,915 in April 2024 to £3,200 in January 2022. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 200.

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Meaning & Analysis

Raised in the seaside town of Margate, seagulls would have been a constant presence in Emin’s youth. The bird has also been an important motif throughout her artistic career, and was the primary subject of her 2004 plaster work In My Family When Someone Dies They Are Cremated And Their Ashes Are Thrown Across The Sea. For Emin, seagulls are equated with family, togetherness, and reminiscences of her youth in Margate.

Within this particular work, the seagull is depicted alone, and Emin’s expressive mark-making gives the bird a sense of motion. The bird itself, which Emin’s title describes as “about to fly”, is potentially a foil for Emin herself. Like the seagull she depicts, Emin too was ready to fledge the nest of Margate, the site of her distressed adolescent years, and escaped to London at the young age of fifteen.

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