Further Back To You
Further Back To You
Signed Print
Tracey Emin
£1,550-£2,250 VALUE (EST.)
$2,800-$4,100 VALUE (EST.)
$2,600-$3,750 VALUE (EST.)
¥13,000-¥19,000 VALUE (EST.)
€1,750-€2,550 VALUE (EST.)
$15,000-$21,000 VALUE (EST.)
¥250,000-¥360,000 VALUE (EST.)
$1,900-$2,750 VALUE (EST.)
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Etching, 2014
Signed Print Edition of 150
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Artwork | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2023 | Chiswick Auctions - United Kingdom | Further Back To You - Signed Print | |||
| September 2021 | Sotheby's Online - United Kingdom | Further Back To You - Signed Print | |||
| February 2020 | Sotheby's London - United Kingdom | Further Back To You - Signed Print | |||
| April 2019 | Tate Ward Auctions - United Kingdom | Further Back To You - Signed Print | |||
| December 2018 | Chiswick Auctions - United Kingdom | Further Back To You - Signed Print | |||
| September 2018 | Chiswick Auctions - United Kingdom | Further Back To You - Signed Print |
Meaning & Analysis
This signed print from 2014 is a limited edition of 150 from Tracey Emin’s The Last Great Adventure Is You series. The print shows a naked woman reclining on her bed or couch, her face concealed to the viewer, her contours rushed and smudged in a manner typical of Emin’s production.
Further Back To You was produced by the artist on the occasion of her solo exhibition The Last Great Adventure is You, held at White Cube, London, from October to November 2014. The print is strikingly similar to In My Mind II, the drawing Emin produced for the exhibition, in that both take as their subjects a reclined female nude. The edges of the image are smudged, and her head is purposefully concealed to the viewer, whilst the outlines of her figure are unfinished towards the edges. The image appears as immediate and direct, as well as intimate. After all, Emin gained prominence precisely thanks to the visceral quality of her works, which has come to characterise hers as an “art of disclosure”.
The female nude, oftentimes a self-portrait of the artist, has occupied Emin’s mind and oeuvre more than any other subject, as evident in her Nude Self-Portraits and Nude Drawings. For the artist, the nude represents an opportunity of self-discovery and reflection, of laying bare her own self on paper, as well as a means to speak of female subjectivity. In Further Back To You, Emin presents to the viewer a solitary woman in her bed, possibly waiting for someone who will never arrive. In the artist’s words, the title of the exhibition was meant originally to reference the “other person”, who her figures insistently await. However, throughout the years in which she put together the exhibition, Emin eventually realised that there was no one, and that “we are always alone”. While melancholic in tone, this work is also an invitation to remember to always come back to oneself first.
