In the
photograph, his bikini - clad British mother was held aloft in the arms of a Lebanese
boyfriend on a Beirut beach
by the Casino du Liban, where she performed as a cabaret dancer.
A somewhat torrid history may have been implicit in the work's title — Emin had bought the hut with Sarah Lucas in 1992, and had previously shown a series of
photographs of herself squatting naked in its splintery interior, taken
by her then -
boyfriend Mat Collishaw — but it didn't stick around long enough to gain the same notoriety as her bed; it went up in smoke in the Momart fire in 2004.