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Tracey Emin

Tiny Gold Hearts Signed Print

Tiny Gold Hearts

Tracey Emin

Tiny Gold Hearts
Signed Print

Name: Tiny Gold Hearts
Brand: Tracey Emin
Rating: 5 (235 reviews)

Tracey Emin

£950-£1,450

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Medium: Etching

Edition size: 100

Year: 2010

Size: H 43cm x W 39cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Tracey Emin's Tiny Gold Hearts (signed) is estimated to be worth between £950 and £1,450. This etching print from 2010 has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 5%. Over the past 12 months, the artwork has sold once, with an average selling price of £700. In the last five years, the hammer price has remained steady, with the average return to the seller being £595. This work is part of a limited edition of 100.

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Auction Results

Auction Date	Auction House	Location
October 2024	Tennants Auctioneers	United Kingdom
April 2022	Bonhams Knightsbridge	United Kingdom
January 2020	Chiswick Auctions	United Kingdom
November 2017	Sworders	United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

Tiny Gold Hearts (2010) by Tracey Emin features a spare line drawing of a female figure, her arms raised above her head, alongside scrawled text that reads “Tiny Gold Hearts.” A smudge of black ink appears nearby, disrupting the expanse of paper. The work typifies Emin’s intimate, fragmentary style, where drawing and writing fold into one another.

In Tiny Gold Hearts there’s a sense of distance and immediacy at play - both in the awkward pose of the figure and the way the handwritten phrase hovers beside her, like a thought half-spoken. The text doesn’t explain, it punctuates. As in much of Emin’s work, meaning is never pinned down, but instead suggested through gesture, allusion and repetition. The small scale and faint mark-making feel emotionally loaded. Tiny Gold Hearts doesn’t announce itself loudly; it lingers. It speaks to the artist’s ongoing interest in memory, bodily experience, and the quiet residue of feeling.

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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