The Last Thing I Said to You is Don't Leave Me Here I, II

Details

Tracey Emin (B. 1963)
The Last Thing I Said to You is Don't Leave Me Here I, II
C-print, in two parts
each image: 35 ¼ x 48 5/8in. (89.5 x 123.5cm.)
each sheet: 32 7/8 x 48in. (83.5 x 122cm.)
Executed in 2000, this work is from an edition of six

Provenance

White Cube.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2001.

Literature

M. Maloney, I am a Camera, London 2001 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, pp. 232-233).
H. Luard and P. Miles (eds.), Tracey Emin: Works 1963-2006, New York 2006 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, pp. 380-381).
Tracey Emin: 20 Years, exh. cat., Scotland, National Galleries of Scotland, 2008 (another from the edition of I illustrated in colour, p. 48).
E. Booth-Clibborn (ed.), History of the Saatchi Gallery, London 2011 (installation view of another from the edition illustrated in colour, pp. 288-289).

Exhibited

London, Saatchi Gallery, Ant Noises Part II, 2000 (another from the edition illustrated).

Special Notice

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Further Details

Another work from the edition of The Last Thing I said to You was Don't Leave me Here I is in the collection of Tate Galleries, London.

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Lot Essay

Discussing this piece and her choice to portray herself naked, Emin said, ‘the hut is a bare and naked thing. I thought it made perfect sense if I was. It’s also got some kind of weird, religious look in it, like I’m praying or something’ (T. Emin quoted at https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/emin-the-last-thing-i-said-to-you-was-dont-leave-me-here-ii-p11921/text-summary, [accessed 12 September 2014]).

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