In the Colony Room collection, Dean Street (donated to the club during Michael Wojas's tenure)

One of the three joke paintings created in 2006 that deal with the serious themes of existence, death and the passing/ freezing of time in visually comic way.

Here the idea of time and the passing of time occurs in the image of a Swedish artist smoking a pipe in a comic book style. Smoking has always been a vanitas symbol in art history for ephemerality and the here the artist - and their future (the skull) - smoke. Time passing is depicted with painted tallys. On the left a female nude appears along with some moomins in the top left as Furr was a fan of Swedish artist Tove Jannson

"I thought again about these three 2006 paintings recently. I was 40 yrs old at the time and was probably having a kind of mid life crisis as they all deal with death and existence. They say the artist reveals themselves in their portraits and here it was a very simple cartoon of a Swedish artist. Why a Swedish artist? Well I was thinking of both Ingmar Bergmann and Tove Jannson and their respective works. The idea for this face, in particular, happened entirely by chance.. I was going to the loo in my studio in Kingston upon Thames and I saw this face on the glass in the window. It had happened accidentally, one way or another, I don't think anyone had drawn it but I thought it was so good I photographed it and traced it to transfer it to this painting and to make something inconsequential and transient, permanent in a painting. I used to go to the Colony Room in Soho at this time. I gifted this painting to Michael Wojas there, as this is what artists were doing at the time. It is also why it has the distinctive 'buckingham green' of the Colony Room in it - to colour coordinate. I have absolutely no idea where it is now." - Furr 2024