Tracey Emin - Four Thousand Years, 2020

Publisher: Counter Studio, Margate
Year: 2020
Format: One colour lithograph on Somerset Velvet Warm White 400gsm
Edition: Edition of 50, Signed, dated and numbered by the artist.
Condition: New / Mint - Unframed

Tracey Emin's new set of 8 lithographs depicting herself are incredibly personal auto portraits and revelatory. Viewed almost as an intimate tiny sketchbook of herself, a visual diary. These editions are great examples of Emin's radical painting style which has been influenced by Expressionism. These works showcase universal feelings, raw and bittersweet emotions, which are Emin’s constant subject surrounded around the idea of love, loss, intimacy, and longing. In making herself the subject of her work, and concentrating intensely on figuration, Emin creates bridges with the rich art-historical tradition of the female figure and female nudes. She shows strong emotive force in these pictures, as seen for example in the work of male painters Munch and Schiele, which Emin admires and studied throughout her artistic oeuvre.

“ The title says it all. All women think they are related to Cleopatra or Nefertiti and I am ashamed about it. „

—Tracey Emin