"My bed" went for $4 million

At auction Christie's for $ 4.5 million realized unharvested bed with garbage. Eccentric artist turned to the subject of commercial furniture surrounded by garbage installation that she just called "My bed".

On a popular auction English artist Tracey Emin. The artist has created an installation, which gave absolutely ordinary name - "My bed". In 2000 it was bought by a collector Charles Saatchi is he paid for it just 150 thousand pounds.

For 14 years the cost of this work modern skills considerably increased. At the last auction, the initial price set in 750 thousand dollars. the initiators of the auction is planned to implement bed for 1.2 million, however the art dealer and father gallery White Cube Jay Jopling he gave her twice more. At the auction was the artist herself. When they announced the final cost, she smiled and began to clap their hands, reports the Guardian.

"My bed" is considered one of the most legendary and diverse works best British art. A woman calls his work a kind of self-portrait. She actually slept on the bed and took a decision to be made it into the installation in a week after he had parted with the partner. According to the version of the artist, then parting it 4 days spent in bed, because he felt within himself a terrible fatigue. 2 days out of 4 she slept.

Jopling stated that too much loved as a young boy, with whom she had to leave. "I was in despair. What I felt was very romantic, but it was probably the most sad romance that we can imagine. I wish I could write a novel about a broken heart, and I even did it - with the help of bed," explained the artist.

As a result, her work is a clean bed with dirty sheets, scattered around which used condoms, cigarette butts, his blood-stained linen and empty bottles of alcohol. And yet, for the first time the bed put up for auction in conjunction with the work of Andy Warhol, Peter Doig and Jackson Pollock. Well, in 1999 the given object was nominated for the Turner Prize is a prestigious prize in the field of the progressive skills.

According to the version of Emin, she hoped that it will become a benefactor who will donate it to the Museum, where the object will be put on public display. However, that directly Jopling will do with their own purchasing, not told.

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