Fighting For Love
Fighting For Love
Signed Print
Tracey Emin
£700-£1,050
$1,350-$2,050 Value Indicator
$1,250-$1,900 Value Indicator
¥6,500-¥9,500 Value Indicator
€850-€1,250 Value Indicator
$7,000-$10,500 Value Indicator
¥140,000-¥210,000 Value Indicator
$900-$1,350 Value Indicator
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Medium: Lithograph
Edition size: 300
Year: 1998
Size: H 30cm x W 21cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Artwork | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2022 | Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers - United Kingdom | Fighting For Love - Signed Print | |||
| September 2021 | Sotheby's Online - United Kingdom | Fighting For Love - Signed Print | |||
| October 2015 | Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers - United States | Fighting For Love - Signed Print | |||
| September 2015 | Bonhams Knightsbridge - United Kingdom | Fighting For Love - Signed Print | |||
| July 2015 | Christie's New York - United States | Fighting For Love - Signed Print | |||
| March 2004 | Bonhams Knightsbridge - United Kingdom | Fighting For Love - Signed Print |
Meaning & Analysis
Fighting For Love is a signed lithograph by member of the Young British Artist group, Tracey Emin. Published in 1998 in a limited edition of 300, this piece provides intimacy through word rather than image. Having the text dominate the page is a recurring motif throughout the artist's portfolio and is distinctive of her oeuvre.
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.
