9 wacky works of art that will give you sticker shock

Tracey Emin’s controversial “My Bed” sculpture — featuring the artist’s messy boudoir complete with crumpled sheets, cigarette butts and dirty underwear — sold to an anonymous buyer this week at Christie’s in London for an eye-popping $4.25 million.

The deal once again proves that deep-pocketed collectors can’t get enough of wacky modern art, despite the fact that it leaves many of us scratching our heads.

They’re not everyone’s cup of tea, but here’s eight different artworks that come with a hefty price tag.

Horror head

Made with nine pints of Marc Quinn’s frozen blood, “Self,” a cast of the artist’s head, was bought by the National Portrait Gallery in London for $450,000 in 2006. An earlier version of the sculpture, purchased for $150,000 by art collector Charles Saatchi in 1991, was accidentally thawed when Saatchi’s then-partner Nigella Lawson, now his ex-wife, pulled the plug to the freezer where it was stored.

Puffed-up Fido

Jeff Koons’ orange “Balloon Dog” became the world’s most expensive piece by a living artist when it fetched $58.4 million at a Christie’s auction in November 2013. An unknown telephone bidder purchased the iconic canine from its previous owner, US publishing magnate Peter Brant.

Dead zone

Auction-house insiders say it’s mostly Russian oligarchs and Saudi royals who bid on creepy artwork by the British artist Damien Hirst. His top-priced offerings include “The Golden Calf” (a taxidermic cow with a mirror on its head), which sold for $18.6 million, and “The Kingdom,” a tiger shark preserved in formaldehyde, which fetched $17.2 million at Sotheby’s in 2008.

Good-luck charm

Alexander Calder’s “Poisson Volant (Flying Fish),” a 1957 mobile of a giant black fish, came on the block at New York auction house Christie’s in May 2014 and was bought by an anonymous Asian bidder for nearly $26 million. The fish is widely considered a symbol of good fortune in Asian society.

Liquor train

At that same auction, Jeff Koons’ sculpture “Jim Beam – J.B. Turner Train” sold for $33.7 million. There are a total of three examples of the 9-odd-foot, stainless-steel train set, which are filled with Jim Beam bourbon.

Toilet humor

A replica of “Fountain,” the porcelain urinal bought from a New York plumbing store and re-angled at 90 degrees from its usual position by the French -American artist Marcel Duchamp, fetched $1.7 million at Sotheby’s in November 1999. The original “Fountain,” controversially exhibited in New York in 1917, is said to have been thrown out as garbage shortly after it was first exhibited. Duchamp commissioned 17 carefully crafted replicas to be made of the original urinal four years before his death in 1968.

Stick man

In April 2010, Sotheby’s London reveled in the sale of the 1961 life-size bronze sculpture of an emaciated human, “L’Homme qui marche I” (Walking Man 1), by the Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti. It set a world record as the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction with a price tag of $104 million.

Sex list

Tracey Emin’s “Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995,” a rickety camping tent embroidered with the names of the artist’s conquests — as well as the names of platonic friends she’s shared a bed with — was bought by advertizing honcho Charles Saatchi for $60,000 in the mid-1990s. The sculpture was among a series of so-called “BritArt” pieces that were burnt to a crisp in a London warehouse fire in 2004.