Eric Thake (1904 - 1982)

An Opera House in Every Home, 1972

linocut on paper

13.5 x 21.0 cm
27.5 x 42.0 cm (frame)

signed and dated lower right: Eric Thake 1972
inscribed with title lower left: An Opera House in every home

Private collection, Adelaide, a gift from the artist in 1972

Australian Images: Prints, Drawings and Watercolours from The Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 December 1979 – 28 January 1980 (another example)
Harbour Hymns, City Songs: Visions of Sydney from The Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 January – 11 March 1990 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, another example)
Everyday Life, Prints, Drawings and Watercolours from The Collection of Australian and European Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1 October – 27 November 1994, and touring regionally, cat. 81 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, another example)
Australian Prints from the Gallery’s collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 6 November 1998 – 7 February 1999, cat. 70 (another example)
Suburb, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, 15 April – 23 July 2000 (another example)
Utzon’s Opera House, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 22 November – 22 December 2013 (another example)
The People’s House: Sydney Opera House at 50, Museum of Sydney, Sydney, 1 July 2023 – 3 March 2024 (another example)
A Modern Turn, Castlemaine Art Gallery, Victoria, 16 March – 28 September 2025 (another example)

de Teliga, J., Australian Images: Prints, drawings and watercolours from the collection, Sydney, 1979, p. 10 (illus., another example)
Smith J. and Grant, K., In Relief: Australian Wood Engravings, Woodcuts and Linocuts, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1997, p. 54 (illus., another example)
Kolenberg, H. and Ryan, A., Australian Prints from the Gallery’s collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1998, cat. 70, p. 84 (illus., another example)
Emmett, E., Sydney: Metropolis, Suburb, Harbour, Historic Houses Trust of N.S.W., Sydney, 2000, pp. 71 – 79 (illus., another example)
McCulloch, S., McCulloch, A. and McCulloch Childs, E., The New McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art, The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne, 2006, p. 944 (illus., another example)
Allen, C., ‘Modernist pieces framing a new perspective’, The Australian, 30 August 2025 (illus., another example)

Other examples from this edition are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Castlemaine Art Gallery, Victoria, Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria, Geelong Gallery, Victoria and State Library of Victoria, Melbourne