Eric Thake 'Strange Spectacle' - Collected by Ian romantic

Eric Thake 'Strange Spectacle' - Collected by Ian romanticEvery year, modernist Eric Thake would send his friends a hand made Christmas card. Original linocut prints, these cards have since become canonical, each observing a changing nation through one its most distinct voices. There are notes of humour, critique and poeticism. Dated 1944, Strange Spectacle transforms a twig into opera glasses. Like a literary satirist, Thake was interested in an uncommon view of common things, seeing debris like a twig as a

butterflies and flowers

'Self Scene/Old Hat'

Condition: Good:  Describes the average used work of art

Signed: Signed with initials CB

'The Nest' ca

and the traditional country of Kuuku Yau/Lama Lama

'Vase with Flora' 2021

Signed: Signed lower centre: Pietro Annigoni

Paper Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm

having been unable to afford models

Framed Dimensions: 63 x 84 x 4 cm

including at the Art Gallery of South Australia