Eric Thake 'Desert Island' - collected by Peter women artists

Eric Thake 'Desert Island' - collected by Peter women artistsEvery 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 of its most distinct voices. They also speak to Thakes innerworld, with this particular work coming from the collection of his friend, revered writer and curator Ursula Hoff. Desert Island pictures a figure reclining on a deserted beach, a butterfly resting on

Comes with Letter of ProvenanceFrom the 'I Nudi' seriesPublished by Edizione Galleria Levi

he is among Australia's greatest artists

titled and inscribed in pencil in margin below image: P/P Out to Sea Rick Amor 91

His work celebrates the divinity within nature

Picasso and Apollinaire perceived Rousseau as a kind of child

Would DaVinci have displayed a Mona Lisa tea towel in his home

Dimensions: 55 x 57 cm

but reaches deep into history

plate size 29 x 21cm

'Alice's Foot' 1977

and is represented across public collections including at the Art Gallery of New South Wales

Represented in numerous public collections including Artbank and the Australian War Memorial