© Tracey Emin, My Bed (c. 1999) Installation.Such beauty! What a talented artist!
The work itself consists of Emin's bed after she had lain in it for roughly seven days while contemplating suicide. The objects that surround the bed include used condoms, stained undergarments, cigarette butts, empty bottles of alcohol and the bed itself is covered in stained sheets with bodily fluids.
The work itself consists of Emin's bed after she had lain in it for roughly seven days while contemplating suicide. The objects that surround the bed include used condoms, stained undergarments, cigarette butts, empty bottles of alcohol and the bed itself is covered in stained sheets with bodily fluids.
Tania Buckrell Pos, head of specialist art consultancy Arts & Management International, said: "It is a pivotal piece, it belongs in a museum. Hopefully whoever he bought it for will pass it to an institution."
The best place for it, she continued, would be the Tate, saying: "That's absolutely where it should be."
The White Cube would only confirm that "we were involved in the purchase on behalf of a client" adding it was "very early days at this stage".
Comment: for more examples of the psychopathic degradation of the beauty that is real art:
Eradicating beauty: The destruction of art and The Plot Against Art