Artist Emin gets ‘flashbacks’ over prize-winning bed

Tracey Emin said she gets flashbacks when she is near her "iconic" bed artwork as it is readied to go on auction for the first time.

My Bed, which comes complete with empty vodka bottles, cigarette butts, and discarded condoms, is being sold at Christie’s on Tuesday by the millionaire art collector Charles Saatchi.

The controversial piece, which was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1999, is expected to fetch between £800,000 and £1.2m (€1m and €1.5m).