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It's What I'd Like To Be - Signed Print by Tracey Emin 1998 - MyArtBroker

It's What I'd Like To Be
Signed Print

Tracey Emin

£3,950-£6,000Value Indicator

$8,000-$12,500 Value Indicator

$7,500-$11,000 Value Indicator

¥40,000-¥60,000 Value Indicator

€4,550-€7,000 Value Indicator

$40,000-$60,000 Value Indicator

¥780,000-¥1,190,000 Value Indicator

$5,500-$8,000 Value Indicator

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42 x 60cm, Edition of 50, Lithograph

Medium: Lithograph

Edition size: 50

Year: 1998

Size: H 42cm x W 60cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

Last Auction: March 2025

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March 2025
Forum Auctions London
United Kingdom
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January 2019
Phillips London
United Kingdom
May 2018
Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers
United Kingdom
September 2017
Sotheby's London
United Kingdom
June 2013
Bonhams Knightsbridge
United Kingdom
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The value of Tracey Emin's It's What I'd Like To Be (signed) is estimated to be worth between £3,950 and £6,000. This lithograph print, created in 1998, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 3%. This work has an auction history of 10 total sales since its entry to the market on 5th June 2013. In the last 12 months, the average selling price was £4,300, with a total of 2 works sold. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 50.

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Meaning & Analysis

Emin was born in south London in 1963, into the thick of a blooming technicolour age referred to as ‘The Swinging Sixties’. The period marked the beginning of a youth-driven cultural revolution, besides marking the birth of third-wave feminism.

Emin’s drawings, which lie at the heart of her most vulnerable artistic creations, are filled with allegories and manifest how outstanding of a draughtswoman she really is. Her jagged lines convey pure emotion, technical proficiency and genuine interest in her craft. The rough, rapidly scrawled contours and scratchy handwriting at once articulate raw anxiety as well as carefree amusement. The many realities of our human lives are brought into question here as Emin utilises the most fragile art form to reflect sentiments and intellect. She reveals both the unique beauty and the disarray of existence.

Preceding Little Owl, It’s What I’d Like to Be is a delicate lithograph executed by Emin in 1998. This work is an early example of her intensely personal, honest and humorous artistic practice. Featuring the image of a baby deer, Emin here relies on the animal’s symbolic connotations alluding to gentleness, innocence and luck. The image of a deer is considered a good omen and represents the loving presence of a guiding spirit. Emin’s confessional drawing manifests herself as her own guardian in mammal form.

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