Lot 26
An Opera House in Every Home 1972
linocut
signed, titled and dated below image: An Opera House in every home. Eric Thake 1972
14.5 x 21cm (card); 31 x 38cm (frame)
Estimate $3,000 - $5,000
Gift of the Artist to Mr. Harry Muir
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 example)
Harbour Hymns, City Songs: Visions of Sydney from The Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 January -11 March 1990 (another example)
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 example)
Australian Prints from The Gallery's Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 November 1998 – 7 February 1999 (another example)
Suburb, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, 15 April – 23 July 2000 (another example)
Utzon's Opera House, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 22 November – 22 December 2013 (another example)
Teliga, D. J., Australian Images: Prints, Drawings and Watercolours from The Collection, Sydney, 1979, p. 10 (illus., another example)
Draffin, N., Art Gallery of New South Wales Handbook, Prints & Drawings, Sydney, 1988, pp. 109-124, (illus., another example)
Emmett, E., Sydney: Metropolis, Suburb, Harbour, Sydney, 2000, pp. 71-79 (illus., another example)
Smith J., Grant, K., In Relief: Australian Wood Engravings, Woodcuts and Linocuts, Melbourne, 1997, p. 54 (illus., another example)
Kolenberg, H., Everyday Life: Prints, Drawings and Watercolours from The Collections of Australian and European Art, Sydney, 1994. cat. no. 81 (another example)
Kolenberg, H., Ryan, A., Australian Prints from The Gallery's Collection, Sydney, 1998, p. 84, cat. no. 70 (illus., another example)
McCulloch, S., Alan McCulloch and Emily McCulloch Childs, The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art, 2006, p. 944 (illus., another example)
Thomas, D., Landscapes of the Mornington Peninsula, 1999, pp. 10-13 (illus., another example)
Vernon, K., Harbour Hymns, City Songs: Visions of Sydney from The Collection, Sydney, 1990. cat. no. 55 (illus., another example)
inscribed inside card: Harry,/ The Great Diva could never have/ imagined one such as this./ Best Wishes for Xmas & 1973/ Eric
Other examples of this print are held in the 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 and Multiples
AUCTION
Sale: LJ8778
6:00pm - 16 April 2025
Hawthorn
VIEWING
Fri 11 - Sun 13 April, 10am - 4pm
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CONTACT
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