1938
Oil on panel
53 x 37.5 cm
Private Collection, UK
More details...Recto: Signed lower left: R. Eurich '38
Aka: Mavis Eurich; Portrait of Mavis Eurich [Southampton 1994]; possibly the same as 'Her Grandmother's Dress' [Redfern]
Verso: Inscribed “Richard Eurich 1938”
Other measurements: 51 x 36 cm [REP]; 54.6 x 38.1 cm [Southampton]
antique back view dress figure profile women woman femaleRE painted this picture of his wife Mavis in 1936 but cut it down two years later and re-dated it.
Entry from RE diary: Nov 25 - 12 Dec 1936 -"Portrait of Mavis in hundred year old dress with lace collar and cuffs. 40 x 18 in."
The portrait as it is now is about half the original height, 53 cm instead of 101.6 cm.
Usually called 'Her Grandmother's Dress', this in fact is a portrait of the artist's wife, Mavis Pope, dressed up in some old Victorian clothes which came from a second-hand shop previously occupying the Redfern Gallery's premises.
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