Something Really Terrible

Details

Tracey Emin (b. 1963)
Something Really Terrible
appliqué blanket
97 x 78¾in. (246.4 x 200cm.)
Executed in 2001

Provenance

White Cube.
Private Collection, Geneva.
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 29 June 2011, lot 115.
Acquired after the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

C. Burnett (ed.), Writers on Artists, New York 2001 (illustrated in colour, p. 216).
A. Rose, "Raw Nerve", in Telegraph Magazine, April 2001 (illustrated in colour, p. 31).
J. Winterson, C. Freedman and R. Ruchs, Tracey Emin, New York 2006 (illustrated in colour, p. 318).

Exhibited

London, White Cube, Tracey Emin: You Forgot to Kiss My Soul, 2001.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent. These lots have been imported from outside the EU for sale using a Temporary Import regime. Import VAT is payable (at 5%) on the Hammer price. VAT is also payable (at 20%) on the buyer’s Premium on a VAT inclusive basis. When a buyer of such a lot has registered an EU address but wishes to export the lot or complete the import into another EU country, he must advise Christie's immediately after the auction.

Présenté par

Zoë Klemme

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Descriptif du lot

Emin’s blankets are voice-works. It’s as though they were hung out and caught language as it passed through them, from tiny detail to huge declaration.’
– Ali Smith

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