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Tracey Emin's Bed, Tate Britain

31 Mar 15 – 01 Jun 16, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

EDITOR'S PICK: The infamous Tracey Emin bed takes centre stage at Tate Britain Walk through British Art 2015

By CW Contributor on 30/3/2015

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Tracey Emin My Bed 1998© Tracey Emin. All rights reserved, DACS 2014 Photo credit: Courtesy The Saatchi Gallery, London / Photograph by Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd
Tracey Emin My Bed 1998© Tracey Emin. All rights reserved, DACS 2014 Photo credit: Courtesy The Saatchi Gallery, London / Photograph by Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd
Tracey Emin's Bed, Tate Britain Tracey Emin's Bed, Tate Britain Ali Godwin
Tate & Tracey Emin
The Tate Britain Walk through British Art, from stern Tudor portraits to quirky Turner prize nominees, gets an overhaul this spring with Tracey Emin's My Bed (1998) as the star. The Walk through of the Tate Britain collection first opened in 2013 and displays some of the finest British works in a chronological display, with particular highlights being the serene natural forms of Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, and sensational Pre-Raphaelite images by Dante Gabriel Rossetti from the 19th century. 
Turner Prize Tracey Emin | My Bed
The famous unmade Tracey Emin bed is probably one of the best known Turner prize nominations (1999) in recent years, and rocketed her to stardom after the famous live Channel 4 debate in 1997 when Emin appeared intoxicated. Strewn with stained sheets, condoms, underwear and alcohol bottles, Emin made the infamous bed while she was living in a Waterloo council flat after a traumatic breakup.
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The illustrious contemporary art collector, Count Christian Duerckheim, bought the piece last summer for a whopping £2.54 million at Christie's and has now loaned it to Tate for 10 years. 
Tate Walk through featured artists
As well as the provocative bed, you'll discover fantastic British works throughout the ages from the Renaissance to contemporary artists like David Hockney and Antony Gormley, as you wander the halls of the Tate galleries. New Tate acquisitions are also on display for the first time, such as sisters Jane & Louise Wilson's black and white photographs Blind Landings (H-bomb Test Site, Orford Ness) (2013). Look out especially for the rough and tumble east end boys, Gilbert & George, sculptor Anish Kapoor's Adam (1988-9) and two paintings by Francis Bacon, Study of a Dog (1952) and Reclining Woman (1961), which Emin has specially selected in a dialogue with the tumultuous and emotionally raw bed. 
Come to the Tate Britain, London to catch a glimpse of Emin's messy bed, but stay for the countless examples of incredible works by British artists over the last 500 years. 


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What Tracey Emin's Bed, Tate Britain
Where Tate Britain, Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG | MAP
Nearest tube Pimlico (underground)
When 31 Mar 15 – 01 Jun 16, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Price £Free
Website Click here for more details



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    Every time Tracey Emin constructs her bed in a new location, she climbs in, gets comfortable and abandons it to create the same sensation she felt when it was a new work.

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    Count Christian Duerckheim was one of the principle lenders of privately owned works to the British Museum's Germany Divided: Baselitz and His Generation (2014) with works by George Baselitz, Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke and Blinky Palermo. He is one of the most prolific collectors of German post-war graphic art. 

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