Tracey Emin's messy bed installed at Tate Modern

March 30, 2015 at 9:15 a.m. | Updated March 30, 2015 at 9:35 a.m.

by Associated Press

A general view of British artist Tracey Emin's work entitled 'My Bed' as the gallery highlights new and rehung works of art at the Tate Britain gallery in London, Monday, March 30, 2015. Emin's bed was originally showcased at the gallery some 15 year ago. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
A general view of British artist Tracey Emin's work entitled 'My Bed' as the gallery highlights new and rehung works of art at the Tate Britain gallery in London, Monday, March 30, 2015. Emin's bed was originally showcased at the gallery some 15 year ago. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

LONDON (AP) - The world's most famous messy bed has gone on public display, 15 years after it caused an art-world sensation.

Tracey Emin's "My Bed" has been installed at London's Tate Modern gallery, complete with disheveled sheets, empty vodka bottles, cigarette butts and discarded condoms.

Emin, who created the work after a relationship breakdown, wiped away tears as she posed with the bed Monday.

She said much in her life had changed since then, and "I make my bed every day."

"My Bed" sold at auction last year for 2.54 million pounds ($3.8 million) to a German industrialist. He has loaned it to the Tate for at least 10 years.

The 1999 work one of the landmarks of the Young British Artist movement that shook up the art world in the 1990s.

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