Black and White

Richard had three of his drawings, perhaps left over from his solo Goupil gallery exhibition a couple of months before, accepted into this show, but there is no hint at which ones they were in these reviews. They might have been the first three entries in his 1930 sales diary: The Young Widow , The Cat and Mouse , and Rabbits.

Review in the Yorkshire Post, February 1930:

Under the description, "Black and White", which conveniently lumps together drawings in pencil, chalk, or ink, etchings and drypoints, lithographs, and even colour-prints, there is some interesting work in the current exhibition in the Leeds Art Gallery.

. . . Three drawings by Richard Eurich possess an individuality of their own, but his peculiarly boneless figures have a note of mannerism which approaches affectation.

Review in the Yorkshire Observer, February 1930

There is a group of accomplished pencil portraits by Richard Eurich, the young Bradford artist, who recently exhibited at one of the London galleries. The technique is so polished as to recall the miracles of Ingres, but Mr Eurich is not obsessed by technical considerations; he contrives to express individuality of vision - and that is the life-blood of art.