All will be revealed: secret postcards at the Royal College of Art
More than 2,000 pocket-size works of art have been donated by more than 800 artists for this year's Secret Postcards exhibition in London. The cards will be auctioned for charity Photograph: David Levene/GuardianPaul Smith is so last year ... Secret Postcard 516Photograph: PRBarbie meets Howard Hodgkin (now there's a thought). Secret Postcard 2338Photograph: PR
A hint of the Hockneys? Secret Postcard 5Photograph: PRWhen Curtains Go Bad. Secret Postcard 1024Photograph: PRSo Jamie Reid's retired ...? Secret Postcard 2077Photograph: PRClue: attended Hornsey College of Art. Secret Postcard 1778Photograph: PRSorry, Steve Bell's job is already taken ... Secret Postcard 2165Photograph: PR... as is Peter Doig's. Secret Postcard 2322Photograph: PRPaula Rego? (Though we're not too impressed by that brushwork.) Secret Postcard 479Photograph: PRA reference to the Guardian's 2008 ad campaign, surely? Secret Postcard 9 Photograph: PRPaolozzi meets Terry Gilliam meets Mark Leckey (squint and you can see the Mickey Mouse). Secret Postcard 63Photograph: PRWhoever it's by, this one is deeply disturbing ... Secret Postcard 422Photograph: PRThe skeletal dog has more than a touch of the Damien Hirsts. Secret Postcard 395Photograph: PRSomeone who's been struggling at auction (though secretly we suspect it's by David Shrigley). Secret Postcard 2405Photograph: PRPrimary colours and a hint of Malevich? Secret Postcard 2065Photograph: PRWith thanks to LS Lowry or Alfred Wallis ... Secret Postcard 1643Photograph: PREither a complicated yoga pose or something far naughtier ... Secret Postcard 76Photograph: PRHommage à Picasso? (He's dead, so we're reasonably sure he's not taking part.) Secret Postcard 258Photograph: PRHalloween happened already, surely ...? (And we're not sure what that lump of speckled stuff is, but we don't like it one bit.) Secret Postcard 1278Photograph: PRAnselm Kiefer, eat your heart out ... Secret Postcard 1347Photograph: PRDecisions, decisions ... The sale happens on 21 NovemberPhotograph: David Levene/Guardian
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