Chapmans knock up a new tent for Tracey

Artist Tracey Emin is in for a surprise. When her famous artwork Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995 - a tent with the names of her friends and lovers stitched inside – was destroyed in the Momart warehouse fire of 2004, she claimed that she could never conceive of reproducing it, saying: “I can't create that emotion again - it's impossible.”

However, Jake and Dinos Chapman, her stablemates at Jay Jopling's White Cube gallery, decided that it wasn't so impossible at all and proceeded, presumably as a favour, to knock up a replica for her on the quiet. (When they discovered one of their own pieces, a work called Hell, had been destroyed in the fire,  they re-created it as Fucking Hell, which last week went on show at White Cube.)

But when the Chapman brothers told Jopling what they had done, his reaction was not what they had expected. Says The First Post's source: "He told them on no account to tell Tracey what they had done because she was really touchy about it. At the time a couple of tabloid papers had ridiculed her by making up copies of the tent, which had really upset her."

Showing uncharacteristic sensitivity, the Chapmans conceded to Jopling's wishes and Emin has remained none the wiser.  ·