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

The Kiss Was Beautiful
Signed Print

Tracey Emin

£850-£1,300Value Indicator

$1,800-$2,750 Value Indicator

$1,550-$2,350 Value Indicator

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4% AAGR

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Medium: Lithograph

Edition size: 500

Year: 2016

Size: H 70cm x W 50cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Tracey Emin's The Kiss Was Beautiful (signed) is estimated to be worth between £850 and £1,300. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £988, with a total of 6 works sold. In the last five years, the hammer price has varied from £617 in March 2025 to £5,000 in June 2023. This lithograph print, created in 2016, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 4%. This work has an impressive auction history, having been sold 55 times since its initial sale in November 2016. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 500.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
March 2025Bukowskis, Stockholm Sweden
December 2024Bonhams New Bond Street United Kingdom
November 2024Bonhams New Bond Street United Kingdom
November 2024Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr France
June 2024Bonhams New Bond Street United Kingdom
May 2024Bonhams New Bond Street United Kingdom
March 2024Bonhams New Bond Street United Kingdom

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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