Eric Thake 'Mr Picasso! Gentlemen, you won’t find him here' - Collected by Murray contemporary In the rousing ‘Visitation’

In the rousing ‘Visitation’

a poetic vestige from another time

'Sign of Life 11' 2014

must encounter if the journey is to be made

Eric Thake 'Mr Picasso! Gentlemen, you won’t find him here' - Collected by Murray contemporary In the rousing ‘Visitation’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. They also speak to Thakes inner world, with this particular work coming from the collection of his friend, revered writer and curator Ursula Hoff. Mr Picasso! Gentlemen, you wont find him here is a send up of the National Gallery of