Return of the Prodigal Son (c1958)
Photo: Paul Carter      
© Richard Eurich Paintings

Return of the Prodigal Son

c1958

Oil on board
19.5 x 8.5 cm

Private Collection, UK

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Recto: Unsigned and undated

Other measurements: 19.5 x 8.5 cm [REP]

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Dad must have found the elaborate little frame in a junk shop. It definitely has the air of having been used to frame a religious subject originally.
Since Dad saw Rembrandt’s ‘Return of the Prodigal Son’ he was fascinated by the subject. In 1942 he made a sort of copy/study of the Rembrandt and made his own interpretation of the subject in 1959 a year after this little picture. The positions of the main characters are more or less the same in both, but there the similarity ends.

This is on a piece of hardboard which Dad cut especially to …

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Dad must have found the elaborate little frame in a junk shop. It definitely has the air of having been used to frame a religious subject originally.
Since Dad saw Rembrandt’s ‘Return of the Prodigal Son’ he was fascinated by the subject. In 1942 he made a sort of copy/study of the Rembrandt and made his own interpretation of the subject in 1959 a year after this little picture. The positions of the main characters are more or less the same in both, but there the similarity ends.

This is on a piece of hardboard which Dad cut especially to fit the odd-shaped frame. The landscape behind with its formal tree and the buildings in the distance is distinctly like a Renaissance Italian picture and shows a hot country. Also in the distance are shown earlier stages of the son’s journey, a Renaissance device.The 1959 painting has a Yorkshire barn and hints of a northern town in the distance behind the ripe cornfield.

The warmly enthusiastic dog is so typical of Dad’s love of dogs!

REP / PB

Richard did three paintings based on the prodigal son theme:

Provenance

EXHIBITED | 1st to 26th Apr 1958

"The Christian Vision" - Redfern Gallery, London

Cat 7

EXHIBITED | 1st to 24th Oct 1958

"Richard Eurich, Derek Middleton, Maurice Utrillo" - Redfern Gallery, London

Cat 23

IN COLLECTION | 2017

Private Collection, UK

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Provenance:

  • IN COLLECTION - 2017 - Private Collection, UK

Exhibitions:

  • 1st to 26th Apr 1958 - "The Christian Vision", Redfern Gallery, London
    Cat 7
  • 1st to 24th Oct 1958 - "Richard Eurich, Derek Middleton, Maurice Utrillo", Redfern Gallery, London
    Cat 23

Notes:

  • None recorded.

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