1946
Oil on panel
21 x 27.5 cm
Private Collection, UK
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Recto: Signed and dated lower left: R. Eurich 1946
Aka: The Dreamer [Redfern]; Dreamer in a Cornfield [RE diary]
Verso: Redfern Gallery label with title "The Dreamer", Purchaser - Lord Amherst, May 31st 1952, and handwritten note "d.d. Roger Senhouse with love Christmas; label City of Bradford Art Gallery, Cartwright Memorial Hall, Bradford Artists Exhibition 1951
Other measurements: 21 x 27.5 [REP]; 21 x 28 cm [collector 2018]
bare chested beer bottle border collie bottle church spire cornfield dark sky dog drunk hay making hay stack lying down male man mat red spotted handkerchief rug sea sheafs sheep dog shirtless sleeping wheat stacks women woman femaleExhibited with The Dreamer (Study) at the Redfern Gallery in 1949 [Cat 6]. RE says in his diary that "Dreamer in Cornfield, larger version…. lost by Rex Nan Kivell" [owner of the Redfern], but he also records it as sold in 1951 in his sales diary, so we can perhaps assume that the study version was eventually found."
Bought by pilot and airline director Lord Amherst in 1952 who gave it as a Christmas present, it seems, to Roger Senhouse, publisher and friend to the Bloomsbury set.
What are we to make of the figure in white in the background (see detail below)? Is it part of the dream?
Gloucester Declines Two Modern Pictures “ We should get pictures that the man in the street can understand and get some pleasure out of," Ald. S. Stoddarts said at Gloucester City Council meeting yesterday. Ald. Mrs. Edwards had objected to the Museums Committee decision not to purchase two pictures‐Flowers against Yellow by Ivor Hitchens and The Dreamer by Richard Eurich‐at a total cost of £157 10s. Ald. A. G. Lea said one painting looked like an atomic bomb exploding in technicolor. The second was a harvesting scene, with the spectrum of the rainbow turned inside out, and the anatomical dimensions …
Gloucester Declines Two Modern Pictures “ We should get pictures that the man in the street can understand and get some pleasure out of," Ald. S. Stoddarts said at Gloucester City Council meeting yesterday. Ald. Mrs. Edwards had objected to the Museums Committee decision not to purchase two pictures‐Flowers against Yellow by Ivor Hitchens and The Dreamer by Richard Eurich‐at a total cost of £157 10s. Ald. A. G. Lea said one painting looked like an atomic bomb exploding in technicolor. The second was a harvesting scene, with the spectrum of the rainbow turned inside out, and the anatomical dimensions of the gentleman in the painting were not what they were used to in natural life. The council decided not to purchase the painting
Detail of "figures" in the background.
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Richard Eurich Paintings
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