Tracey Emin

Melting on A Summer day

Unique drawing
Hand-drawn Indian Ink on lithographic background, on Somerset Velvet Warm White 400gsm.
77 x 94 cm (30 1/2 x 37 1/2 in)
Signed, titled and dated by the artist
$36,000

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For this new ongoing series, Tracey Emin returns to one of her most iconic motifs - the bed. Each print shares the same lithographic background image - a hesitant outline of a bed - onto each of which Emin has added a unique figurative drawing in India ink. Together the works make up a sequence of intimate bedroom scenes, some featuring a single figure, others a couple, with the fluid and intense mark-making conveying moments of intense emotional being.

Always at the centre of her own world, Tracey Emin uses all aspects of her life in her art, turning intimate autobiography into broader statements about sex, love, death, freedom and everyday life. Her work has taken the form of diaristic drawings, paintings, films, sculptures and written stories, all of which convey the same combination of frustration, pain, compassion and wit. Drawing and printmaking have remained key mediums for Emin, and over the last ten years she has produced a steady output of monotype prints direct from her drawings.

Tracey Emin was born in 1963 in London. She shares her time between the South of France, London and Margate.

Emin has exhibited extensively including solo exhibitions at Château La Coste, Aix-en-Provence, France (2017); Leopold Museum, Vienna (2015); Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (2013); Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (2012); Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK (2012); Hayward Gallery, London (2011); Kunstmuseum Bern (2009); Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2008); Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Malaga, Spain (2008); Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2003); and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2002). In 2007 Emin represented Great Britain at the 52nd Venice Biennale and her installation My Bed has been included in ‘In Focus’ displays at Tate Britain with Francis Bacon (2015), Tate Liverpool with William Blake and also at Turner Contemporary, Margate alongside JMW Turner (2017). In 2011, Emin was appointed Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and in 2012 was made Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for her contributions to the visual arts.

Emin's lastest landmark exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts (2020) sees masterpieces by Edvard Munch shown alongside her most recent paintings. These works, which explore the loneliness of the soul, have been chosen by Emin to sit alongside a carefully considered selection of 19 oils and watercolours drawn from MUNCH’s rich collection and archives in Oslo, Norway.