Every 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.

"Roadside Bunyip" is a trick of the light. In it, two glowing roadworks lamps on steel drums are flashed by Thake's headlights, transforming into a bunyip's eyes. The hilarious hallucination is a moment caught from a long car trip, the mundane made magical. 

Represented across numerous public collections, including at the National Gallery of Victoria, "Roadside Bunyip" is a museum-quality work. It speaks to Thake's remarkable wit, Australian modernism and the friendship between an artist and scholar. With strikingly excellent provenance, it is a prize for collectors of modernist art. 

Eric THAKE (1904 - 1982)
'Roadside Bunyip' 1973
linocut on paper
Image Size: 22 x 13 cm
Dimensions: 22 x 26 cm 
Signed: Signed and dated lower right: Eric Thake 1973; titled lower left.

Comes with Letter of Provenance

Impressions of this work are at the: National Gallery of Victoria, accession number P143-1974;National Gallery of Australia, accession number 74.405.

Condition: Good: Describes the average used work of art, where the image is in good condition. The margin may need to be framed out due to markings, corner wear, dog ear, small tears or if framed, the frame may have minor damage

(c) The Artist or Assignee