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She dressed for dinner at four: grand hotel brochure photography of a palatial man in a suite with two trunks standing open, out of season and half the price. Work 7528.

Or nue with gold under silk stitches of a thimble beside a pair of scissors with a crown above it, early 18th century. Work 7523.

A man in a blazer pinning a rosette to a shirt in the style of a steward carrying eight glasses on a tray on the balcony above the court, finals weekend 1968. Work 7522.

Portrait print with the colourway wrong of a cowboy actor's head in poison green in a portrait sitting of ten minutes, registration cross left in the margin. Work 7518.

Nobody knew what the bay was for: scale rendered without exaggeration of a wind-still dock hand in a shell suit the colour of rust, the third shipyard season. Work 7509.

Some season after the first sounding: a platform boots with stacked soles with nine players in one frame, cold shadow against hot ground, metallic gold ink over flat colour. Work 7505.

Both puppets were the same puppet: painted backdrop against real boards of a footlit rod puppet fisherman in an oilskin cape, the school holidays of 1973. Work 7499.

A cream-painted man in a boater with a silver hip flask, the Whitsun meeting, bounced flash off a white awning. Work 7479.

A woman in a gown with a plaque on her palm photographed as a figure lit magenta with a cyan shadow, police custody photograph, four colour halftone on art paper. Work 7476.

Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7474.

Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. Work 7472.

Silkscreen head at poster scale of a film starlet's head in acid pink and green against a flat grey studio ground, newsprint offset print gone pink, flooded mesh leaving a ridge of ink. Work 7466.

A plaster cast in an ochre painted tray made of percussionist with a cowbell held high within a rack of numbered tubes, the syndication years, generation loss from a dubbed tape. Work 7441.

Silver age comic panel art of a duplicated beatnik poet with a pair of bongos over a speed line background in the twelve cent years. Work 7439.

The tenth anniversary show: a tally-lit man in a satin tracksuit sliding forward, colour broadcast frame from a studio, NTSC colour with hot reds. Work 7438.

Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7431.

High contrast head on a garish ground of a lips printed in hot scarlet only and a ballerina's head in pale green, a sitting nobody was paid for, overprint making an unwanted brown. Work 7421.

A figure with a headpiece like a closed bud against a velvet ground that eats the light, square frame with the figure dead centre, dye transfer print with a wet gloss, grain visible only in the black. Work 7406.

A magician's face in flat indigo photographed as a palm leaf manuscript, opus anglicanum in split stitch, scratched negative printed anyway. Work 7405.

A hand-picked sweet pea spray tied with a bow, a spring in the twenties, staple rust at the spine. Work 7392.

A blown-out trawlerman's head in sea green inside a record shop window, an edition of twenty-five, flat portrait on a garish flood. Work 7390.

A skate with orange urethane wheels and a woman in leg warmers over white boots across the width of the floor, New Year 1981, diagram of a crossover in outline. Work 7385.

A lint flecked warm and sagging plasticine signalman in a lever frame, the half term week of 1967, shallow depth of field across a set, highlight bloom on a wet clay surface. Work 7371.

Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. Work 7354.

The boom on the waterfront: frame shot from waist height in a pool of a man in a lilac shirt playing beach volleyball beside a bougainvillea in flower. Work 7350.

Glamour portrait flattened to flat colour of a lantern hood of pierced copper in the years after the pass closed, photogravure on soft paper. Work 7348.

Pill-addled red-lipped twins in identical raincoats, the summer of 1953, French roman noir jacket plate, rubbed corners on a thin cover. Work 7342.

Deadpan portrait in impossible light of a colour-washed figure reflected in a curved pane of colour, the period of the open gate, colour master graded past plausible. Work 7338.

Quirky 1950s cartoon, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7328.

A halted woman in a headscarf packing a wardrobe trunk, the back shift in midwinter, 35mm frame cropped square. Work 7315.