£8,125
Contemporary & Post-War Art | Prints & Multiples | 635
Auction: Contemporary & Post-War Art | Prints & Multiples
Lithograph, 58/75, signed, titled, numbered and dated 2019 in pencil, produced by Counter Editions, Margate
Note: This was the first print made by the artist at the new Counter Studios in her hometown of Margate, Kent.
Drawing and printmaking have been central to Emin’s artistic practice throughout her career, offering an immediate and personal dimension to her moving, compelling and at-times controversial works. She regularly takes moments, sensations and frustrations from her own life and in the evolution of her art creates a broader engagement with the wider world and our endlessly prevailing human preoccupations within it; sex, death, love and freedom.
‘No Surrender’ is the first print made by Emin in the new Counter Studios in her hometown – Margate, Kent. Here she brings a broad, gestural quality to the depiction of the body, while the colour adds a heightened emotion, juxtaposing hot and cold tones, the living and the suffering. Rising to prominence as part of the YBA’s in the 1990s, Emin continues to be extremely prolific in the making and exhibiting of her work, her themes, preoccupations and approach evolving as time passes.