Love Plane
Love Plane
Embroidery
Grayson Perry
£4,950-£7,500 VALUE (EST.)
$9,000-$13,500 VALUE (EST.)
$8,500-$12,500 VALUE (EST.)
¥40,000-¥60,000 VALUE (EST.)
€5,500-€8,500 VALUE (EST.)
$50,000-$70,000 VALUE (EST.)
¥800,000-¥1,220,000 VALUE (EST.)
$6,000-$9,000 VALUE (EST.)
This estimate blends recent public auction records with our own private sale data and network demand.
Embroidery, 2000
Embroidery Edition of 50
H 37cm x W 37cmx D 1cm
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Artwork | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2019 | Forum Auctions London - United Kingdom | Love Plane - Embroidery | |||
| January 2018 | Phillips London - United Kingdom | Love Plane - Embroidery | |||
| November 2010 | Phillips New York - United States | Love Plane - Embroidery |
Meaning & Analysis
One of Grayson Perry’s earliest works, this coloured embroidery on silver duchess satin from 2000 is a limited edition of 50 from Grayson Perry’s Embroidery collection. The squared embroidery shows a delicate and elegant interwoven pattern that evokes the tight structure of synapses, or a flower pattern. A coloured plane dominates the representation, stranding at the centre of the composition and carrying on its wings to purple and pink hearts.
Differently from most of his works, Perry has not disclosed much on this embroidery, leaving the interpretation open to his collectors and fans, who are left to make what they want of this simple yet ambiguous embroidery. However, given the predominance of the theme in other works, it is likely that the piece is related to questions of identity, sexuality and love. In his life as well as in his works, Perry and his alter ego Claire have worked hard to push the boundaries of contemporary representation to explicitly address and defend social concerns and issues, one above all their endorsement of individual freedom of expression. By leaving to his viewers the possibility of reading the work however they prefer, Perry once again reaffirms his interest in personal creativity and freedom, and mostly allows the piece to work and speak differently to different audiences.
The highest value realised for a work by Grayson Perry was in October 2017, when I Want To Be An Artist fetched £632,750 at Christie's, London. The values achieved for Perry's work at auction regularly land in the hundreds of thousands of pounds.
