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Birds - Signed Print by Tracey Emin 2011 - MyArtBroker

Birds
Signed Print

Tracey Emin

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76 x 60cm, Edition of 300, Lithograph

Medium: Lithograph

Edition size: 300

Year: 2011

Size: H 76cm x W 60cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

Last Auction: April 2025

Value Trend:

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Location
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Hammer Price
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April 2025
Dawsons, Berkshire
United Kingdom
$11,000
$12,500
$16,000
September 2024
Christie's London
United Kingdom
January 2023
Phillips London
United Kingdom
March 2020
Sotheby's London
United Kingdom
March 2019
Forum Auctions London
United Kingdom
September 2017
Sotheby's London
United Kingdom
October 2016
Christie's London
United Kingdom
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The value of Tracey Emin’s Birds (signed) is estimated to be worth between £15,000 and £23,000. This lithograph print from 2011 has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 33%. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £12,000, across 1 total sales. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £9,500 in January 2023 to £12,000 in September 2024. This work is somewhat rare, having been sold 10 times since its entry to the market in June 2014. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 300.

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Meaning & Analysis

Emin was born in the far south of London in 1963. She grew up in the midst of a blooming technicolour age referred to as ‘The Swinging Sixties’. Her adolescent years were characterised by a youth-driven cultural revolution built on modern and self-indulgent ways of thinking.

Emin’s outstanding artistry is defined by her innate ability to convey emotion through the process of drawing. Her works on paper are technically accomplished and manifest her devotion to her craft. She is an expressionist whose jagged contours and rapid lines convey our anxiety at being human when confronted with the complexities of life. What better creature to envelop all of these touchstones than a bird.

Emin's Birds from 2011 is a witty illustrated love letter. Preceding the design of Believe In Extraordinary from 2015, this print depicts a line drawing in blue ink of two birds kissing. They sit perched on an elderflower bush beneath the words, ‘You inspire me with Your determination And I Love You’. Emin dedicated this work to the strength and determination of all Paralympics alike. The birds, a motif that Emin frequently uses, symbolise freedom and vigour, whilst the use of the text expresses her immense admiration of human resilience.

  • 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).