Sitting With You
Sitting With You
Signed Print
Tracey Emin
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Medium: Etching
Edition size: 200
Year: 2020
Size: H 31cm x W 23cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Location | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2022 | Bonhams Knightsbridge | United Kingdom | |||
| March 2020 | Tate Ward Auctions | United Kingdom | |||
| March 2017 | Forum Auctions London | United Kingdom | |||
| September 2015 | Bonhams Knightsbridge | United Kingdom |
Meaning & Analysis
Effortlessly executed in blue ink, Sitting With You is a nude self-portrait created by Tracey Emin in the summer of 2013 from her studio in the South of France. The self-portrait is fluid and spontaneous, and Emin captures herself seated with her figure stretched across the entire expanse of the composition. The viewer’s eye is led down to the bottom right of the piece, and at the point where her calf is cut off is Emin’s signature and the edition number of the print.
Sitting With You is testament to Emin’s ability to capture her own likeness through minimal mark-making with a distinct lightness. According to Emin herself, she has been producing self-portraits ever since she was a young child, so it comes as no surprise that she has truly mastered her self-portrait. Like so many of her other Nude Self-Portraits, Emin pays little attention to her face in this etching, celebrating instead the curvature of her feminine form.
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).
