At Christies most recent postwar and contemporary evening auction held at its rooms in London (1 July), Tracey Emin’s infamous soiled bed went under the hammer. My Bed sold for £2.5 million ($A4.5 million) with celebrity British dealer Jay Joplin, of White Cube fame, purchasing the work.
First exhibited at the 1999 Turner Prize, Charles Saatchi bought Emin’s bed in 2000 for £150,000 ($A272,877). It had remained in the collector’s London home since then.
