THAKE, Eric | Greeting card: Christmas - An Opera House in every home

AUSTRALASIAN ART

Eric THAKE

1904 Auburn, Victoria, Australia – Geelong, Victoria, Australia 1982

Greeting card: Christmas - An Opera House in every home 1972
relief linocut, printed in black ink, from one block
printed image 13.8 h x 21.3 w cm
Gift of the artist 1973
Accession No: NGA 73.1227

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A year before the completion of the Opera House, Eric Thake applied a dose of irreverent Australian humour in his linocut An Opera House in every home - linking the inspiration for Australia's grandest building to dinner dishes stacked in the draining rack on the kitchen sink.

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