Richard Eurich, RA

1903-1992

Scene on a Street, Lyme Regis

Ref: 1001

Signed and dated l.l.: R.Eurich/1930

Oil on canvas, 16 by 20 ins (41 by 51 cm)

Provenance: with Redfern Gallery, London, 15 November 1932; T.W.Spurr, Bradford

Exhibited: Morecambe, British Institute of Adult Education, Art and Technical School, Loan Exhibition of British and French Paintings, June 1939; Manchester, Altrincham Libraries Museum and Art Galleries, no.14; Lyme Regis Museum, Serendipity, Nov 2014-March 2015

           

Eurich’s early work frequently possesses a mysterious narrative quality that can lend his subject matter a particular sense of surrealism. Painted in 1930, only just after the artist had decisively turned his focus from drawing to painting in oil, the present work depicts a house now called Dorset House (formerly Gibraltar Lodge) at the junction of Pound Road and Silver Street in Lyme Regis. It is one of the earliest works the artist exhibited with the Redfern Gallery, with whom he would enjoy a highly successful twenty five year partnership. The painting just pre-dates Eurich’s own time living in the Dorset coastal town between 1932 and 1933.

 

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Richard Eurich, RA (1902-1993)

 

Primarily known for his highly evocative and powerful seascapes, frequently depicting the Solent coast in southern Hampshire, Eurich worked as a prominent war artist to the Admiralty in Second World War, his best known work probably being his dramatic depiction of the evacuation of Dunkirk, Dunkirk Beaches of 1940 which is in the Imperial War Museum. Born in Bradford, Eurich studied at Bradford School for Arts and Crafts, completing his training at the Slade under Henry Tonks in the mid 1920s. With the support of Sir Edward Marsh and Eric Gill, he held his first one-man show (entirely of pencil drawings) at the Goupil Gallery in 1929. In 1933 he had the first of fifteen exhibitions at the Redfern Gallery. He was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1942 and a full member in 1953. He was also a member of the New English Art Club and an honorary member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. 

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