1984
Oil on board
29 x 22 cm
Private Collection, UK
Interiors Portraits Animals | Birds Works | 1980 to 1989 All Works in RA Summer Exhibitions 1937 to 1993
Recto: Signed and dated upper right: R. Eurich 24/6/84
Other measurements: 29 x 22 cm [REP]
arm chair cat pet shoulder wallpaper pattern women woman femaleRichard loved animals, from his first pet rabbit to later dogs and cats. In his early diaries, when he was at the Slade, and far from his Yorkshire home, he says how he misses the animals. Dogs often appear in his paintings, but this picture is more about the feeling of " holding " a cat. The girl's face is all but obliterated, as she concentrates on the experience. When I lived away, on the phone he would always enquire first " How are the cats?" They were important to us too.
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