Eric Thake 'She's late today!' - Collected by Rita animals (c) Charles Blackman / Copyright

(c) Charles Blackman / Copyright Agency

For collectors of abstraction and contemporary art

Dattilo-Rubbo’s achievements maybe vast

Works like ‘Boatsheds’ are hazy and immediate – a reflection of how it feels to succumb to one’s senses

Eric Thake 'She's late today!' - Collected by Rita animals (c) Charles Blackman / CopyrightEvery 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. They also speak to Thakes inner world, with this particular work coming from the collection of his friend, revered writer and curator Ursula Hoff. Dated 1958, this is a marvellous work. In it, a somewhat sheepish hippopotamus sidles