Eric Thake 'Then wrought a tomb and slept' - Collected by Peter cool tones For collectors of contemporary landscapes

For collectors of contemporary landscapes

Image Size: 56 x 26 cm

As Australian journalist Martin Flanagan reflected

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Eric Thake 'Then wrought a tomb and slept' - Collected by Peter cool tones For collectors of contemporary landscapesEvery 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 its most distinct voices. There are notes of humour, critique and poeticism. The second card Thake sent, Then wrought a tomb and slept (1942) is wonderfully whimsical. He imagines a chrysalis as a coffin, turning the caterpillar into Dracula while nearby,