The most famous bed in contemporary art, a tangle of stained and rumpled sheets bearing expensive witness to a time of heartbreak for the artist Tracey Emin, is coming to the Tate gallery on long loan from its new owner, the German businessman and collector Count Christian Duerckheim.
The successful bidder will be faced not only with stumping up this considerable sum, but with transporting, storing and assembling an artwork that encompasses dozens of objects – from rumpled sheets to vodka bottles, condoms, cigarette butts and a miniature stuffed dog.
Through a gap between the edges of the sheets I could see a bed, and the shadows of a rumpled sheet traced the contours of a body.
Now they were sitting on the rumpled sheets of a weathered sofa-bed, looking half awake, half undressed and wholly self-conscious.
Witness the bedroom down the corridor, which has a shiny, polished metal vulture looming on the bedpost, beyond which lie the rumpled sheets of his unmade bed.
Film opens among the rumpled sheets of her noon tryst with a man (James Le Gros) who's later revealed to be married.
It looks easy until you see John Daly hunting for his ball on the third fairway, which, typifying a links fairway, has the loved-in texture of a rumpled sheet.
There's the slight shine of her wedding ring and the stray foot of someone sleeping among the rumpled sheets.
As the father and son carried him in, Nawab, alert to the point of strain, observed blood on some rumpled sheets, a rusty blot.
