Tracey Emin stands by My Bed as it goes on sale for £1.2m

The artist's most famous work compares with past masterpieces that create a self-portrait in objects

Vincent van Gogh never had to stand in the glare of a hundred cameras acting as salesperson for the art he had created out of the depths of despair and suffering.

Van Gogh was dead before his works ever became famous or saleable. By the time his painting of his homely straw-covered kitchen chair was cherished as a symbolic self-portrait, Vincent had truly left the building.

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