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The Kiss Was Beautiful - Signed Print by Tracey Emin 2016 - MyArtBroker

The Kiss Was Beautiful
Signed Print

Tracey Emin

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70 x 50cm, Edition of 500, Lithograph

Medium: Lithograph
Edition size: 500
Year: 2016
Size: H 70cm x W 50cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: July 2025
Value Trend:
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Auction Results

Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
July 2025
Bonhams Knightsbridge
United Kingdom
$1,050
$1,200
$1,550
April 2025
Bonhams New Bond Street
United Kingdom
April 2025
Sworders
United Kingdom
March 2025
Bukowskis, Stockholm
Sweden
December 2024
Bonhams New Bond Street
United Kingdom
November 2024
Bonhams New Bond Street
United Kingdom
November 2024
Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr
France
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The value of Tracey Emin's The Kiss Was Beautiful (signed) is estimated to be worth between £950 and £1,450. Over the past 12 months, the artwork has sold 7 times, with an average selling price of £961. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £617 in March 2025 to £5,000 in June 2023. This lithograph print from 2016 has shown consistent value growth and demonstrates an average annual growth rate of 3%. This work is part of a limited edition of 500.

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Meaning & Analysis

Poetic and personal, The Kiss Was Beautiful is a romantic work about reminiscing intimate moments between lovers. Like many of Emin’s other works in our Neons collection, the work captures these amorous words in Emin’s distinctive handwriting. Contained within a red illuminated love heart, the work has a romantic overtone that speaks to a universal audience about remembering cherished moments of intimacy. The kiss Emin writes beneath her signature at the bottom of the print signals her sense of familiarity with her viewers and collectors, as she plays with the universal desire to love and be loved.

  • 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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