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Lot 40

ERIC THAKE (1904-1982)
An Opera House in Every Home 1972
linocut
signed and dated lower right: eric Thake 1972
titled lower left
14 x 20.5cm (reveal)

Estimate $1,000 - $2,000

Sold for $5,500


Gift of The Artist
Thence by descent


Australian Images: Prints, Drawings and Watercolours from The Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 December 1979 - 28 January 1980 (another impression)
Harbour Hymns, City Songs: Visions of Sydney from The Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 January -11 March 1990 (another impression)
Everyday Life, Prints, Drawings and Watercolours from The Collection of Australian and European Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1 October – 27 November 1994 (another impression)
Australian Prints from The Gallery's Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 November 1998 – 7 February 1999 (another impression)
Suburb, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, 15 April – 23 July 2000 (another impression)
Utzon's Opera House, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 22 November – 22 December 2013 (another impression)


Teliga, D. J., Australian Images: Prints, Drawings and Watercolours from The Collection, Sydney, 1979, p. 10 (illus., another impression)
Draffin, N., Art Gallery of New South Wales Handbook, Prints & Drawings, Sydney, 1988, pp. 109-124, (illus., another impression)
Emmett, E., Sydney: Metropolis, Suburb, Harbour, Sydney, 2000, pp. 71-79 (illus., another impression)
Smith J., Grant, K., In Relief: Australian Wood Engravings, Woodcuts and Linocuts, Melbourne, 1997, p. 54 (illus., another impression)
Kolenberg, H., Everyday Life: Prints, Drawings and Watercolours from The Collections of Australian and European Art, Sydney, 1994. cat. no. 81 (another impression)
Kolenberg, H., Ryan, A., Australian Prints from The Gallery's Collection, Sydney, 1998, cat. no. 70, p. 84, (illus., another impression)
McCulloch, S., Alan McCulloch and Emily McCulloch Childs, The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art, 2006, p. 944 (illus., another impression)
Thomas, D., Landscapes of the Mornington Peninsula, 1999, p. 10-13 (illus., another impression)
Vernon, K., Harbour Hymns, City Songs: Visions of Sydney from The Collection, Sydney, 1990. cat. no. 55 (illus., another impression)



Other impressions of this print are held in the permanent collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; and Castlemaine Art Museum, Castlemaine.

Prints & Multiples

AUCTION
Sale: LJ8691
6:00pm - 19 July 2023
333 Malvern Rd, South Yarra 3141

VIEWING
Friday 14 - Sunday 16 July, 10am - 4pm
4 University Place, Clayton VIC

CONTACT
Hannah Ryan
hannah.ryan@leonardjoel.com.au


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