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Tattoo
Signed Print

Tracey Emin

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21 x 30cm, Edition of 200, Digital Print

Medium: Digital Print
Edition size: 200
Year: 2002
Size: H 21cm x W 30cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: July 2022

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Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
July 2022
Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers
United Kingdom
$700
$850
$1,100
December 2020
Sotheby's London
United Kingdom
May 2020
Forum Auctions London
United Kingdom
November 2019
Forum Auctions London
United Kingdom
May 2018
Sworders
United Kingdom
December 2016
Cornette de Saint Cyr Paris
France
September 2015
Bonhams Knightsbridge
United Kingdom
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The value of Tracey Emin's Tattoo (signed) is estimated to be worth between £650 and £1,000. This digital print, created in 2002, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 5%. This artwork has an auction history of nine total sales since its initial sale in November 2007. In the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £700 in July 2022 to £800 in December 2020. The average return to the seller over the past five years has been £617. This work is part of a limited edition of 200.

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Meaning & Analysis

Known as part of the British Young Group and as the Enfant terrible of British art, Emin is one of the most prominent female artists to have surfaced on to the contemporary art scene. Emin’s artworks have gained visibility thanks to their raw and confrontational quality, through which the artist articulates streams of consciousness, often juxtaposing written and visual language. Tattoo is no exception to this production, and exemplifies the ways in which image, in this case four candid Polaroids, and text come together in Emin’s art.

Tattoo is a diptych composed of a handwritten letter on the left side and four images of the artist’s body on the right side. Three of the images capture Emin’s tattoos, a bird, a scorpion and an anchor, whilst the remaining one presents an enlarged image of the artist’s face, with an attention to her forehead and eyes, scrutinising the viewer. Next to the images, the text expresses Emin’s wish to consider her tattoos as scars, as visual “memories of the past”, which remind her of the juvenile years in which she had them done, “too young and too stupid to think beyond 40, and too vain to consider old age”. In the artwork, Emin revisits the desires of when she was younger, making the viewer an active spectator to her reflections on her past self.

  • 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).