Eric Thake 'Bookplate for John Gartner' - Collected by Amy bright & vivid

Eric Thake 'Bookplate for John Gartner' - Collected by Amy bright & vividThe popular practice of labelling and adorning ones beloved books with bookplates has almost been lost to history. In the early 20th century, members of the Australian Ex Libris Society would assign iconic artists with the task of creating personal tags that could be fixed onto the inside cover or first pages of their books. Eric Thake, known for his bold printmaking and distinct ability to sympathise with humanity through his images, was a popular

In a pastel palette

whose work was similarly precise and highly finished

Paper Size: 47 x 38 cm

Dean started taking and developing photographs which later led to an interest in painting after he befriended an itinerant painter

signed 'Mary MacQueen' & dated '78 below image

the phrase “I was thinking of becoming a wino and playing the bongos full-time” hanging above her

no history of Australian modernism is replete without Blackman

Image in pristine condition

acrylic on card

Dimensions: 62 x 45 cm

accession number: 20062G6

the work is intense and poetic