Can you Imagine? Tracey Emin's Bed sold at auction for £2.5million #IRepEntertain9jarBlog #TwitterTrendBlog via @myentertain9jar

TRACEY Emin’s controversial modern artwork My Bed sold at auction for £2.5million last night.

 

Tracey Emin with My Bed[GETTY]

The 1998 work, which features an unmade bed and a littered floor including empty vodka bottles, cigarette butts and discarded condoms, went under the hammer at Christie’s in London.

The 1999 Turner Prize shortlisted work was put up for sale by millionaire art collector Charles Saatchi, with a guide price of between £800,000 and £1.2million.

He had bought it for £150,000 in 2000.

Emin was in the packed room as the work was sold, to applause from the crowd.

Christie’s said that with buyer’s premium it went for £2,546,500, a world record at auction for the artist from Margate, Kent.

The auction house was unable to immediately reveal the buyer’s name.