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Tracey Emin (b. 1963)

HRH Royal Britania 2012

Monoprint | 29.6 x 21.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 212729

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  • A monoprint of Queen Elizabeth II, half length, with her head turned in profile to the left. In 2012, members of the Royal Academy presented the Queen with a portfolio of 105 works on paper to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee. This followed the presentation of similar portfolios by the Royal Academicians in the Queen's Coronation and Silver Jubilee years, 1953 and 1977.

    Tracey Emin belonged to the loose group of British artists in the late 1980s known as the Young British Artists or YBAs, famously exhibiting her own unmade bed as part of her Turner Prize nomination in 1999, and a tent embroidered with the names of everyone she had ever slept with. Her work is self-reflective and confessional, encompassing drawing, painting, sculpture, film, installation, neon lighting, embroidery and appliqué. Emin was elected to the Royal Academy in 2007. This drawing, made on a sheet of carbon transfer paper, shows a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II and features Emin's idiosyncratic misspellings in its title. It was commissioned by the FT Weekend Magazine to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee, and later given to the Queen as part of the Diamond Jubilee portfolio.
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    Presented to Queen Elizabeth II as part of the Diamond Jubilee Gift from the Members of the Royal Academy of Arts,14 November 2012

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    Monoprint

    Measurements

    29.6 x 21.0 cm (sheet of paper)

    26.9 x 19.9 cm (sight)

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