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She Lay Down - Signed Print by Tracey Emin 2020 - MyArtBroker

She Lay Down
Signed Print

Tracey Emin

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56 x 73cm, Edition of 150, Lithograph

Medium: Lithograph
Edition size: 150
Year: 2020
Size: H 56cm x W 73cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: April 2025
Value Trend:
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Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
April 2025
Bonhams New York
United States
$2,700
$3,200
$4,100
June 2023
Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers
United Kingdom
June 2023
Bonhams Knightsbridge
United Kingdom
March 2020
Tate Ward Auctions
United Kingdom
June 2019
Forum Auctions London
United Kingdom
April 2019
Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers
United States
March 2018
Forum Auctions London
United Kingdom
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The value of Tracey Emin's She Lay Down (signed) is estimated to be worth between £2,450 and £3,650. This lithograph print from 2020 has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 4%. This artwork has a strong auction history, having been sold 8 times at auction since its initial sale on 19th September 2012. The hammer price over the past five years has ranged from £2,482 in April 2025 to £3,640 in June 2023. The current average return to the seller is £2,584. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 150.

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Meaning & Analysis

British artist, Tracey Emin’s work is masterfully resonant within a feminist discourse on art historical legacies. It is also a powerful encapsulation of the human condition overall. In this grouping, the artist presents her fearless prose through the means of printmaking, allowing her inner world to unfold within two inky limited edition artworks. The works were created to coincide with the retrospective exhibition “Love is What You Want”, held at the Hayward Gallery in 2011.

While a need for recollection underpins these works, their compositions primarily address the remnants of physical intimacy. Rather than painting literal depictions of passion, Emin captures the emotions awakened in her after the act. As such, these are portraits of turbulent flashbacks associated with desire.

With She Lay Down (Deep Beneath The Sea), Emin couples notions of love and longing with a palpable sense of vulnerability. Written in the artist’s signature scrawl, both the title of the work and the solitary female figure glow in inky blue, taking on an otherworldly quality. In line with Laying With The Olive Trees from the same grouping, the landscape portrayed here is an ambivalent mix between a desert and an ocean. Emin features her own naked body at the centre, still as a statue while shadows erode her contours.

  • 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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