Campers have already put their tents up outside the Royal College of Art (RCA) - anything to secure a good place in the queue when art of The Secret exhibition will be up for sale this Saturday. All pieces cost £45, but could be worth a hundred times more...
More than 1,000 artists have donated work to the RCA Secret exhibition this year.
Artists include Tracey Emin, Grayson Perry, Yoko Ono, Olafur Eliasson, Sir Peter Blake, and fashion designers Manolo Blahnik and Mary Quant, photographer David Bailey, film maker Mike Leigh as well as students and graduates from the Royal College of Art.
The 2,800 postcards are displayed anonymously and are signed on the back. The name of the artist remains a secret until after the cards are purchased.
You find the widest range from traditional portraits and landscapes to contemporary and abstract art - a black woollen glove pasted on the white background and paper sculptures.
Everyone is allowed to buy up to four pieces each, and lucky raffle winners can secure a place among the 50 first people to enter when the sale opens.
The event is the brain child of a student of the University of London in 1994. It has been running every year since, raising money for the RCA's Fine Art Student Award Fund.
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Professor Glynn Williams, head of fine art at the RCA, said: "The Secret exhibition is about securing the future of the next generation of artists and when the public buy postcards at the event they are helping to make this possible".
What attracts many visitors is that it's one of the most democratic art sales in the world, where everyone has an equal chance of getting a big name.
On Saturday, people will queue up from the early morning hours, hoping to get their hands on one of the hidden treasures, or simply buy what they believe would look nice on their wall.
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