Home by eight, they say

Home by eight, they say featuring comic postcard, 1950s UK & eight-of-hearts playing card

How much I like chocolate, especially Polish!

How much I like chocolate, especially Polish! featuring 'Common Chocolate' by Pawel Althamer, 2005 & 'Kacper' by Wilhelm Sasnal, 2009

Untitled

Untitled featuring London prostitute's publicity, 2015 & 'Madonna' by Katharina Fritsch, 1989 at Sir John Soane's Museum, London 

Beware street haunted

Beware street haunted featuring a drawing for 'Standing Figures' by Henry Moore, 1940s & 'Lollipop kids' photo by Colin O'Brien, London 1961

Eight and a half

Eight and a half gouache on lino print by Peter Sylveire (2014) 

What difference does it make if it's behind closed doors?

What difference does it make if it's behind closed doors? featuring unidentified woman by anonymous artist, 1950s/60s & 'Doors of Dublin' photographed by Liam Blake  

Roll up! Roll up! It only takes a second

Roll up! Roll up! It only takes a second featuring 'La Blouse Roumaine' by Henri Matisse, 1940 & License Photo Studio in New York by Walker Evans, 1934

It's the posh ones you wanna watch

It's the posh ones that you wanna watch featuring London prostitute's publicity card, 2015 & portrait of Vsyevolod Meyerhold by Boris Grigoriev, 1916  

Moscow still life

Moscow still life featuring Giorgio Morandi's atelier in Bologna, photo by Luigi Ghirri, 1989-90 & Rossia Hotel, 1980s 

It weren't hard to look sad in them days

It weren't hard to look sad in them days featuring 'The Pinch of Poverty' by Thomas B. Kennington, UK 1891 & 'Jazz', earthenware ginger jar designed by Enoch Boulton, 1928

What's done is done

What's done is done featuring Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Moscow 1918 & Froissart at Leeds Castle, 1395

I surrender

I surrender featuring London prostitute's publicity 2015 & cadets at Sandhurst military academy,UK 20th century 

Drawing strength

Drawing strength featuring "The Orator of the Strike" by Emilio Longoni, 1890-1 & Tom Dixon's pencil from "The Secret Life of The Pencil", photo Alex Hammond/Mike Tinney, 2015 

Ferryman

Ferryman featuring 'Storm Man' by Germaine Richier, 1947-8 & Venice by Wolfgang Tillmans, 2008

Cheer up - We're depending on you!

Cheer up - We're depending on you! featuring plaque with bug and bird, Franco-Italian, 1680 & statue of Russian writer Alexander Pushkin in Tashkent, Uzbekistan  

Did they remember a time when the streets were paved with gold?

Did they remember when the streets were paved with gold? featuring a ceremonial plate with a representation of Cybele, Ai Khanum, Afghanistan, 3rd century BC & High West Street in Dorchester, 1891

I dreamt it bit my bottom!

I dreamt it bit my bottom! featuring detail from "The Sleep" by Gustave Courbet 1866 & snake charmer with cobra, Ceylon 20th century

The unexpected kindness of a crane

The unexpected kindness of a crane featuring a bronze crane with a worm, Qin dynasty, China 221-206 BC & 'The Funeral Party by LS Lowry, 1953

Far from happy with his costume

Far from happy with his costume featuring Margaret of York's crown, 15th century & portrait of T.S. Eliot by Wyndham Lewis, 1938

I wish I'd never come

I wish I'd never come postcard marquetry featuring 'Nevermore' by Paul Gauguin, 1897 & The King's Arms, Dorchester UK, about 1860

Andy's stop

Andy's stop postcard marquetry featuring Andy Warhol, photo by Ewa Rudling, 1975 & London transport logo

Get over it

Get over it! postcard marquetry featuring the Lion of Lucerne, a sculpture designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen and hewn in 1820–21 by Lukas Ahorn, Lucerne, Switzerland, commemorating the Swiss guards who were massacred in 1792 during the French Revolution & El bufón (the buffoon) don Sebastián de Morra by Diego Velázquez, 1645

A hard day's night

A hard day's night postcard marquetry featuring 'Les Repasseuses'('Women Ironing') by Edgar Degas 1884 & Sydney Harbour bridge by night

Her favourite subject

Her favourite subject postcard marquetry featuring Queen Elizabeth & card of an unidentified person, London, turn of last century

Attention!

Attention! postcard marquetry featuring the lower end of a ceremonial cane depicting one of the enemies of king Tutankhamen, Egypt 14^th century BC & police annual inspection, Manchester 1901 

I turned my back

I turned my back postcard marquetry featuring 'Portrait of Ann' by LS Lowry, 1957 & postcard captioned 'Picturesque Lot. A walk in the woods' (the effect of drinking Miers' water), France

Giant hangover

Giant hangover postcard marquetry featuring 'Tête de femme au chignon', a sculpture by Pablo Picasso, 1950s & Florence Nightingale's Bedroom, Claydon House, photo by J. Bethell

Comb & Gargoyle

Comb & Gargoyle postcard marquetry featuring 'Comb', Ready-made by Marcel Duchamp 1916 & a gargoyle at Notre Dame Paris, photo by José Serur Yedid 2008,"3 or 4 drops of haughtiness have nothing to do with savagery" - translation from the French phrase inscribed on the comb

David and Goliath

David and Goliath postcard marquetry featuring a replica of Michelangelo's David, Marseille France & Picasso photographed by Arnold Newman, Vallauris France, 1954 

Just the box

Just the box postcard marquetry featuring a detail of a box from 'Comb' by Marcel Duchamp, 1916 & 'Café', ink and watercolour portrait by Tsugouharu Foujita, 1949

No comparison

No comparison postcard marquetry featuring Dame Anna Neagle photographed by McClelland Barclay, 1940 & Barbara Windsor photographed by Michael Ward, 1962

Miscarriage

Miscarriage postcard marquetry featuring 'Saint Sebastian' by Gerrit van Honthorst, 1623 & 'Eggs' by Andy Warhol, 1982 

Not talking

Not talking postcard marquetry featuring 'Portrait of Olga' by Picasso, 1923 & 'Self Portrait with Palette' by Picasso, 1905 - Olga and Pablo were married in 1918 and separated in 1927

Worship of madness

Worship of madness postcard marquetry featuring 'Head of a Man (with Red Eyes)' by L S Lowry, 1938 & 'The Inauguration of the Great Exhibition, 1 May 1851' in Hyde Park, London, painted by David Roberts, 1854

Artist seeks patron

Artist seeks patron postcard marquetry featuring self-portrait from 'The Student Hommage to Picasso' by David Hockney, 1973 & The King's Bedroom, Hampton Court Palace, London 

Antwerpcunt

Antwerpcunt postcard marquetry featuring a detail from 'Plan' by Jenny Saville, 1993 & Antwerp City Hall, 1970s

Through customs

"Through customs" postcard marquetry featuring a nude by Egon Schiele c. 1915 & 'Valise Charbon' (Coal Suitcase) by Marcel Broodthaers 1966. Egon Schiele was born on this day in 1890

I abstain

I abstain postcard marquetry featuring 'Man Lying on a Wall' by L.S. Lowry 1957 & 'The Houses of Parliament, Stormy Sky' by Claude Monet 1904

I was her captain

I was her captain postcard marquetry featuring 'Me Jane, you Tarzan' photo by Rineke Dijkstra, 1984 & 'Shipwreck' sculpture by Duncan Cameron, 2004

Comrades compartment

Comrades compartment postcard marquetry featuring a World War II Soviet military badge & Isabelle Huppert and Gerard Depardieu in Loulou, 1979  

Moving office

Moving office featuring a detail from a woman's mantle called chyrpy, Turkmenistan, early 20th century & an audio work 'Hold 1997' by Terry Smith

The Serpent Salon

The Serpent Salon featuring 'The Ladies Waldegrave' by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1781 & "Torquoise Mosaic of a Double-headed Serpent', Mexico 15th-16th century AD

Cycle Race

Cycle Race featuring French cyclist Lucien Lesna (1863-1962) published by Everyday Press 2014 & copper mask called 'Obalufon', Ife, Africa, 14-15th century

The shock of the new

The shock of the new featuring 'Forms in Movement' by Dame Barbara Hepworth, 1956 & an anti-railway sketch 'The Pleasures of the Rail Road - Showing the Inconvenience of a Blow Up' by Hugh Hughes, 1831

Puffed up

Puffed up featuring Man in Plastic Suit, photographer unidentified, c.1960 & Piper, Loch Lomond, Scotland, photo by Roman Michnowicz

Sick in the park

Sick in the park, pencil on paper, pS

Smoking kills

Smoking kills featuring a mural 'American Icons' by Daniel Aubry, late 20th century & Fort Custer, Michigan US, photo John Phillips, 1941 

Woman by a wall

Woman by a wall, pencil on paper, pS

Wet dream

Wet dream featuring a Nymph by Lucas Cranach, 1537 & Route Nationale 18, photo by Bruno Boissonnet, France late last century

An arm and a leg

An arm and a leg featuring Torso of a river god from the Parthenon by Phidias, Athens 5th century BC & A Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Edouard Manet 1882