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Tracey Emin

But you never wanted me

Auction Closed

May 13, 11:27 PM GMT

Estimate

700,000 - 1,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Tracey Emin

b. 1963


But you never wanted me

signed (lower left); titled and dated 2018 (lower right)

acrylic on canvas

71 ¾ by 71 ¾ in. 

182.2 by 182.2 cm. 

Executed in 2018.

White Cube, London

Acquired from the above in February 2019 by the present owner

Griselda Murray Brown, "Tracey Emin: ‘Art is a cathartic act for me’," Financial Times, 18 January 2019 (text) (online)

Digby Warde-Aldam, "Tracey Emin’s Unlikely Journey from Vulgar Upstart to Art World Establishment," Artsy, 4 February 2019, illustrated in color (online)

Camila Yahn, "After fatigue and sabbatical, Tracey Emin launches new exhibition at White Cube," FFW, 5 February 2019 (text) (online)

Felicity Carter, "Love, Sex, Death, And Fear Courtesy Of Tracey Emin In Her Latest Exhibition, 'A Fortnight of Tears'," Forbes, 6 February 2019 (text) (online)

James White, "Tracey Emin: A Fortnight of Tears at White Cube Bermondsey," The Upcoming, 6 February 2019, illustrated in color (installed in London, White Cube Bermondsey, 2019) (online)

Katerina Arkharova, "Tracey Emin: life turned inside out," BBC News, 23 February 2019, illustrated in color (installed in London, White Cube Bermondsey, 2019)

Christopher Jones, "Tracey Emin: A Fortnight of Tears," Riot Material, 28 February 2019, illustrated in color (online)

Jack Stanley, "A Look Inside Tracey Emin's "A Fortnight of Tears" Exhibition," Hypebeast, 22 March 2019, illustrated in color (installed in London, White Cube Bermondsey, 2019)

Harriet Lloyd-Smith, "Tracey Emin lays bare her own traumas in piercing new show," Wallpaper, 27 July 2022 (text) (online)

Matthew Bourbon, "The Modern’s sensational ‘Women Painting Women’ exhibition aims to balance the scales," The Dallas Morning News, 6 June 2023 (text) (online)

London, White Cube Bermondsey, A Fortnight of Tears, February - April 2019, no. 6

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Women Painting Women, May - September 2022, p. 16, illustrated in color (detail) and p. 28, illustrated in color