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

For collectors of contemporary landscapes

'Nell Gwynn' 1963

signed 'Wolf-Tasker' and dated bottom margin

'Study for After Vincent Dali van Salvador Gogh - The Persistence of the Starry Night Memory' could be the catalyst for lively dinner party conversation

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 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,