The Burning Tree, Studley Royal (1977)
Photo: Richard Eurich Paintings / RE album      
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The Burning Tree, Studley Royal

1977

Oil on board
30.5 x 45.7 cm

Whereabouts unknown

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Recto: Signed and dated lower right: R.Eurich ’77

Verso: Signed, inscribed and dated

England Studley Royal Park The North Yorkshire animals antlers dead wood deer field fire flames grazing herd hill smoke trees woods woodland

An entirely imaginative and mysterious work, its central motif of flames constantly reappears in one guise or another throughout Eurich's career - the Fawley Refinery flame. mischief nights, bonfires and burning bushes to name a few of them. Here it takes on the character of a daytime hallucination of a kind which Eurich, according to his own account, used to experience occasionally as a child though never in this particular form.

Provenance

EXHIBITED | 28th Jan to 13th Mar 1994

"The Edge of all the Land: Richard Eurich 1903-1992" - Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton    (toured to Manchester, Bradford, Ipswich)

Cat 74, illustrated

AUCTIONED | 20th Jun 1996

"Modern British Art" - Christie's, London

lot 103, illustrated

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Provenance:

  • AUCTIONED - 20th Jun 1996 - "Modern British Art", Christie's, London
    lot 103, illustrated

Exhibitions:

  • 28th Jan to 13th Mar 1994 - "The Edge of all the Land: Richard Eurich 1903-1992", Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton    (toured to Manchester, Bradford, Ipswich)
    Cat 74, illustrated

Notes:

  • None recorded.

Sketches  

Sketch_02-02 Maze, Burning Tree (1962)

Image © Richard Eurich Paintings Ltd.

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References:

  • “Edge of All the Land” Southampton (1994) (Southampton City Art Gallery / Nicholas Usherwood.) [Figure 74]
  • The Sea, the sea (review by Jonathan Meades of the Edge of All the Land exhibition (1994) republished in a book of his selected writings - Pedro and Ricky Come Again, pub. Unbound: 18 March 2021, ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1783529504; ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1783529506)