TRACEY EMIN CBE, RA (b. 1963)
Me, May 2019, 2020
2 colour lithography on Somerset velvet warm white 400gsm
Sheet 55.5 x 45.5 cm
Tracey Emin’s expressive and visceral art is one of disclosure, dealing with personal experience and heightened states of emotion. Frank and intimate but universal in its relevance, her work draws on the fundamental themes of love, desire, loss and grief, unravelling in the process the nuanced constructs of ‘woman’ and ‘self’ through probing self-exploration. ‘The most beautiful thing is honesty, even if it’s really painful to look at’, she has remarked.
Provenance
Counter Editions, Margate, 4th December 2020
Private sale, where purchased November 2022 with JJ Rawlin