28 FEBRUARY 1976, Page 18

Work of art

tries to make silk from a sow's ear.

In any case the double layer of bricks, humorously described as art, is a copy-1 happen to have the original, which I bought some years ago as an investment from the well-known art dealers Messrs Steptoe and Son for the sum of five shillings. Owing to inflation I am prepared to sell this work of art for the sum of £10,000 to the Tate Gallery, as no one else will buy it at any price. In the meantime, it is on view free to the public (except to the Director and Trustees of the Tate Gallery, who will have to pay, as they usually do, through the nose).

Yours artily, L. Gorden