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ART NEWS: Tracey Emin’s bed for sale £1.2 million

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Tracey Emin, My Bed (1998). Courtesy the artist, White Cube and Lehmann Maupin

Hot on the heals of Tracey Selling signed posters at The Other Art Fair for £50 comes the news that Charles Saatchi is selling her Bed at Christies this summer reports the Telegraph.

The piece will go under the hammer at Christie’s this summer, where it will come with a presale estimate of £800,000 to £1.2 million ($1.3 million to $2 million). This is a very conservative estimate according to Emin’s New York dealer David Maupin, who called the piece “historic” and “priceless.”

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