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Fighting For Love - Signed Print by Tracey Emin 1998 - MyArtBroker

Fighting For Love
Signed Print

Tracey Emin

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30 x 21cm, Edition of 300, Lithograph

Medium: Lithograph
Edition size: 300
Year: 1998
Size: H 30cm x W 21cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: November 2024
Value Trend:
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Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
November 2024
Rago
United States
£955
£1,123
£1,415
July 2022
Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers
United Kingdom
September 2021
Sotheby's Online
United Kingdom
October 2015
Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers
United States
September 2015
Bonhams Knightsbridge
United Kingdom
July 2015
Christie's New York
United States
March 2004
Bonhams Knightsbridge
United Kingdom
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The value of Tracey Emin's Fighting For Love (signed) is estimated to be worth between £1,400 and £2,100. This lithograph print, created in 1998, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 55%. Over the past 12 months, the artwork has sold once, with an average selling price of £1,123. This work has a steady auction history, having been sold 7 times since its initial sale in March 2004. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 300.

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Meaning & Analysis

Emin came to the fore of contemporary art in the 1990s through her distinctively visceral and intimate artworks, which speak to the universal themes of love, longing, loss, loneliness and pain. Her artworks oftentimes take the form of visual confessions, where the artist discloses details of her life or her feelings to the viewer, therefore putting her personal experiences and emotional life at the core of her oeuvre. Within this project, written text is not unusual, and is often paired with her minimal visual depictions to add further meaning to the images.

Fighting For Love is one such piece where the text not only predominates the image, but is in fact the only component of the artwork. The print reads as an open-ended letter written by the artist for the viewer to see. The text is a commentary on Emin’s fight for love, that claims: “when the fighting starts, I know that I have already lost … I can’t eat, I can’t sleep, my mind jumps from a grinding numbness to some crazy fucked up out of control day like hell … that’s how it is to live without love”. Through reading Emin’s words, the viewer is permeated by a sense of helplessness. However, it is precisely this intense emotional quality that makes works like Fighting for Love so popular amongst the wider public, in that they necessarily elicit an empathetic response from the viewer, who will relate to Emin’s words to a more or less personal level.