Eric Thake 'Bookplate for Eric Thake' Printmaking Like the great surrealists before

Like the great surrealists before him

Dimensions: 30 x 38 x 3 cm

'Golden Dawn' 1987

Represented across public collections and in several monographs

Le Miere’s work explores the interconnecting moves made through Australian art

Eric Thake 'Bookplate for Eric Thake' Printmaking Like the great surrealists beforeThe 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