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Lot 17

ERIC THAKE (1904-1982)
An Opera House in Every Home 1972
linocut
signed and dated lower right: eric Thake 1972
titled lower centre
15 x 21.5cm (sheet); 31 x 38cm (frame)

Estimate $3,000 - $5,000

Sold for $2,800


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


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: IT098
6:00pm - 3 December 2025
Timed Online Auction (Melbourne)

VIEWING
Fri 28 - Sun 30 Nov, 10am - 4pm
2 Oxley Rd, Hawthorn VIC

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


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