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Everybody Needs a Place to Think - Mixed Media by Tracey Emin 2002 - MyArtBroker

Everybody Needs a Place to Think
Mixed Media

Tracey Emin

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52 x 52cm, Edition of 1500, Mixed Media

Medium: Mixed Media

Edition size: 1500

Year: 2002

Size: H 52cm x W 52cm

Signed: No

Format: Mixed Media

Last Auction: December 2024

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December 2024
Tate Ward Auctions
United Kingdom
$350
$400
$500
November 2024
Forum Auctions London
United Kingdom
September 2024
Tate Ward Auctions
United Kingdom
July 2024
Chiswick Auctions
United Kingdom
February 2024
Tate Ward Auctions
United Kingdom
February 2024
Chiswick Auctions
United Kingdom
December 2023
Tate Ward Auctions
United Kingdom
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The value of Tracey Emin's Everybody Needs a Place to Think (unsigned), created in 2002, is estimated to be worth between £400 and £600. This mixed media artwork has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 11%. This piece has an auction history of 27 total sales since its entry to the market in September 2008. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £265, across 3 sales. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £110 in December 2023 to £700 in February 2022. The average return to the seller is currently £336. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 1,500.

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Meaning & Analysis

This work was created in 2002 to commemorate the launch of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s new channel BBC Four. In response to her commission from the BBC, Emin created this screen printed handkerchief alongside a handwritten invitation to the launch party of the channel on 28 February, 2002. Typical of her wry sense of humour, this invitation read “Please bring this invitation with you, otherwise you’re not going to get in, Love, Tracey X”.

It seems only fitting that Emin should have produced a printed handkerchief for this particular commission, as BBC Four was created to showcase stirring and inspiring documentaries and dramas. As the title of the work would suggest, the new channel provided “a place to think”, while the execution of the work on a handkerchief itself signals the emotional nature of the programmes being broadcasted.

  • 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).