Lot 264
  • 264

TRACEY EMIN | Sometimes the Dress is Worth More Money Than the Money

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Description

  • Tracey Emin
  • Sometimes the Dress is Worth More Money Than the Money
  • film
  • duration: 4 min. 2 sec.
  • Executed in 2000-01, this work is number 4 from an edition of 10, plus 2 artist's proofs.

Provenance

White Cube, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2003

Exhibited

Dallas, Goss Michael Foundation, A Tribute to Tracey Emin, June - September 2007 (ed. no. unknown)
Dallas, Goss Michael Foundation, EAT ME – DRINK ME, June - August 2009 (ed. no. unknown)
London, Hayward Gallery, Tracey Emin: Love is What you Want, May - August 2011, p. 68, illustrated in colour (ed. no. unknown)

Literature

Exh. Cat., Barcelona, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Trans Sexual Express, 2001, p. 87, illustrated (ed. no. unknown)
Exh. Cat., Warwick, Mead Gallery, Read-Only Memory, 2001, n.p., illustrated (ed. no. unknown)
Exh. Cat., Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Ten Years Tracey Emin, 2002, p. 52, illustrated in colour (ed. no. unknown)
Exh. Cat., Thessaloniki, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Europe Exists, pp. 85-87, illustrated  (ed. no. unknown)
Ruth Skilbeck, 'Emin down Under', POL Oxygen: The International Design, Art, Architecture Quarterly, No. 2, June 2003, pp. 115-25, illustrated  (ed. no. unknown)
Exh. Cat., Seville, Fundación BIACs, La Alegría de mis Sueños, 2004, p. 162, illustrated in colour  (ed. no. unknown)
Tracey Emin, 'My Life in a Column', The Independent, 12 August 2005, p. 35, illustrated in colour (ed. no. unknown)
Neal Brown, Tracey Emin (Modern Artists), London 2006, p. 74, illustrated in colour
Carl Freedman and Honey Luard, Eds., Tracey Emin, New York 2006, p. 321, illustrated  (ed. no. unknown)
Siegfried Zielinski, Ah Lord, Love me Passionately: Images of Bodies and Religion in the Lutz Teutloff Collection, Bielefeld 2009, pp. 86-87, illustrated (ed. no. unknown)

Condition

Colour: The colour in the catalogue illustration is fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition and full working order. Close inspection reveals some signs of wear and media accretions to the dvd case.
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