The End of Love
- Artist: Tracey Emin
- Date: 2024
- Medium: Acrylic paint on canvas
- Dimensions: support: 2030 × 2802 mm
- Museum: Tate Modern
- Collection record: Tate Modern website
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About this artwork
This is “The End of Love” by Tracey Emin. Created in 2024, it’s a large acrylic‑on‑canvas work measuring about 2 m by 2.8 m, so you can almost step into the space it occupies. The piece was purchased in 2025 with funding from the A4 Arts Foundation, and it’s currently on display as part of the “Tracey Emin: A Second Life” exhibition at Tate Modern. Emin’s work often turns intimate moments into bold visual statements, and this canvas continues that practice, using colour and texture to suggest the aftermath of a relationship. Because of its scale, notice how the paint is applied in thick, expressive strokes that give the surface a tactile quality—almost like a physical memory you can feel. It’s a striking example of contemporary British art that invites you to consider what “endings” mean in the context of love and memory.
See it in person
The End of Love is in the collection of Tate Modern on Bankside, London — free to enter. Point your phone at any artwork there and audioguide.london plays a free audio guide in six languages — no app download needed.
