Tracey Emin's My Bed sells for £2.54 million at Christie's London auction

Tracey Emin's 1998 artwork My Bed sold for £2.54 million at a Christie's auction in London, with the buyer being Jay Jopling, Emin's art dealer and founder of the White Cube gallery. Originally purchased by Charles Saatchi for £150,000 in 2000, the controversial piece contributed to Emin's 1999 Turner Prize nomination. Emin, present at the sale, expressed hope that a benefactor would acquire it for museum donation and public display, though Jopling's plans remain unspecified. Proceeds from the sale will support the Saatchi Gallery's free entry policy and educational programs. The post-war and contemporary art sale also featured Roy Lichtenstein's 1971 painting Mirror #8, which fetched £1.7 million, Andy Warhol's Self Portrait (fright wig) selling for £5.6 million, and Francis Bacon's 1967 Study for Head of Lucian Freud going for £10.2 million.