Editing Tracey Emin (section)

===Painting===
Emin displayed six small watercolours<ref>List of Works in the Turner Prize 1999 brochure, Tate Publishing</ref> in her [[Turner Prize]] exhibition in 1999, and also in her New York show ''Every Part of Me's Bleeding'' held that same year, known as the ''Berlin Watercolour'' series (1998). These delicate, washed out but colourful watercolours include four portraits of Emin's face and were all painted by Emin in Berlin during 1998, adapted from Polaroids of the artist taking a bath.<ref name="autogenerated1">[http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-5040978.html 'Artist's abortion tape and unmade bed lead Turner Prize shortlist'] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130914090122/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-5040978.html |date=14 September 2013 }}</ref> Each unique painting from this series share the same title, ''Berlin The Last Week in April 1998''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lehmannmaupin.com/exception/info|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222105807/http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/past/?object_id=32|url-status=dead|title=Lehmann Maupin|archivedate=22 February 2012|website=www.lehmannmaupin.com}}</ref> Simon Wilson, spokesperson for the Tate, commented that Emin included the set of tiny Berlin watercolours "as a riposte to the accusation that there are no paintings"<ref name="autogenerated1"/> in the Turner Prize exhibitions.  The bath theme seen in these watercolours was later revisited by Emin in her photographic work ''Sometimes I Feel Beautiful'' (2000) and in monoprints such as the ''Bath White'' (2005) series. With all these works, Emin explores a [[Mary Cassatt]] quality of the "woman in a private moment".{{citation needed|date=September 2016}}

Emin's focus on painting has developed over the past few years, starting with the ''Purple Virgin'' (2004) acrylic watercolour series of purple brush strokes depicting her naked open legs, and leading to paintings such as ''Asleep Alone With Legs Open'' (2005), the ''Reincarnation'' (2005) series and ''Masturbating'' (2006), among others.{{citation needed|date=May 2016}}

In May 2005, London's ''[[Evening Standard]]'' newspaper highlighted Emin's return to painting in their preview of her ''When I Think About Sex'' exhibition at White Cube. Other works were nude self-portrait drawings. Emin was quoted as saying, "For this show I wanted to show that I can really draw, and I think they are really sexy drawings."<ref>[http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-18897358-details/The+bare+truth+about+Tracey/article.do The bare truth about Tracey] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210191730/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-18897358-details/The+bare+truth+about+Tracey/article.do |date=10 December 2008 }}, ThisisLondon.co.uk. Retrieved 10 May 2016.</ref>

Work for her 2007 show at the [[Venice Biennale]] included large-scale canvases of her legs and vagina. A watercolour series called ''The Purple Virgins'' were displayed. There are ten ''Purple Virgin'' works in total, six of which were shown at the Biennale. These were accompanied by two canvases of a similar style called ''How I Think I Feel 1 and 2''.{{citation needed|date=May 2016}} The Venice Biennale was also the first time Emin's ''Abortion Watercolour'' series, painted in 1990, had ever been shown in public.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/arts/gallery/2007/jun/07/emin|title=Tracey Emin at the 2007 Venice Biennale|last=Levene|first=David|date=2007-06-07|website=The Guardian|access-date=2017-03-11}}</ref>

Jay Jopling presented a new Emin painting, ''Rose Virgin'' (2007), as part of White Cube's stand at the Frieze Art Fair in London's Regent's Park on 10 October 2007. More new paintings are expected to be shown in Emin's ''You Left Me Breathing'' exhibition in Los Angeles' Gagosian gallery from 2 November 2007, described in a recent interview as an 'exhibition of sculpture and painting'.<ref name="autogenerated6"/> A number of new paintings were on display including ''Get Ready for the Fuck of Your Life'' (2007).<ref name="autogenerated4"/>

An article by the art critic [[Alastair Sooke]], published in ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', in October 2014, discussed Emin's change of direction from conceptual pieces to painting and sculpture. Sooke claimed that although Emin was appointed Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy in 2011, she has been taking drawing lessons privately for some years in New York, and that she had also been taking sculpture lessons for at least three years. Neither Emin or Jay Jopling have commented on the article.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/11145045/Tracy-Emin-The-Last-Great-Adventure-Is-You-review-Emin-goes-back-to-school-and-lays-bare-her-homework.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007144433/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/11145045/Tracy-Emin-The-Last-Great-Adventure-Is-You-review-Emin-goes-back-to-school-and-lays-bare-her-homework.html |archive-date=2014-10-07 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Tracey Emin, The Last Great Adventure Is You, review: 'Emin goes back to school'|author=Alastair Sooke|date=6 October 2014|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=10 May 2016}}</ref>