Eric Thake 'Then wrought a tomb and slept' - Collected by Peter cool tones Among Australia’s most distinct and

Among Australia’s most distinct and celebrated abstractionists

For collectors of contemporary landscapes

signed 'Wolf-Tasker' and dated bottom margin

as though MacQueen is remembering these flowers and what they symbolised to her

Eric Thake 'Then wrought a tomb and slept' - Collected by Peter cool tones Among Australia’s most distinct andEvery 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,