The Galilee (1938)
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The Galilee

1938

Oil on canvas
40.6 x 61 cm

Whereabouts unknown

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Recto: Signed and dated lower left: R. Eurich. '38.

Aka: The Galilee; Galillee [RE sales diary]

Verso: Inscribed and numbered '"Galilee" by Richard Eurich/15' (on the stretcher)

Other measurements: 40.6 x 61 cm [Christie's]; 40.7 x 50.8 cm;

England The North Yorkshire WY. 41. WY41 beached boats breakwater fishing boat footprints grey cloudy sky grey day groynes house industry sandy beach sea steps windmill

In the 1930s Eurich was painting a lot in the West Country. However the 'WY' in the registration refers to Whitby rather than Weymouth and this work is likely a result of a trip to Yorkshire, or alternatively he may have worked from an old drawing that he happened on in his sketchbook. We are very grateful to Christine Clearkin for her assistance in preparing this catalogue entry and for Philippa Bambach for the catalogue note.

Christie's auction notes

I think that all painters will agree that the cobles are most difficult to draw.

RE Autobiography

House and Garden Magazine
2nd May 1980

Dear Richard Eurich

Having found so much pleasure in your show at the Fine Art Society (and refreshed again by Frank Davis's notes in this week's Country Life) I am prompted to write to you to thank you for the years of pleasure I have derived from two of your paintings I bought as a young man and which have delighted me ever since.

I bought my first Eurich painting - of a grey schooner lying alongside the quay at Poole harbour - from the Mayor Gallery (could it have been?) forty years …

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House and Garden Magazine
2nd May 1980

Dear Richard Eurich

Having found so much pleasure in your show at the Fine Art Society (and refreshed again by Frank Davis's notes in this week's Country Life) I am prompted to write to you to thank you for the years of pleasure I have derived from two of your paintings I bought as a young man and which have delighted me ever since.

I bought my first Eurich painting - of a grey schooner lying alongside the quay at Poole harbour - from the Mayor Gallery (could it have been?) forty years ago. A lovely picture which I hope you recall. Then, a year or so later, I bought a lovely painting of a Yorkshire coble with the Whitby markings drawn up on the beach (from the Redfern I seem to recall). They have been the joy of my eyeballs. I even took the first one to sea with me during the war.

I have since bought other paintings you have done, but bless the day I bought that particular pair. More than anything else in one's life I think the paintings one buys in one's youth keep fresh those days throughout life.

As a peacetime and wartime sailor I have long collected paintings of the sea - Wadsworth, Ravilious and so on - but none has given me more pleasure than I have enjoyed from that pair. I thought the artist ought to know. 

Robert Harling
EDITOR

Provenance

ACQUIRED | 1939

purchased from Tooth's Gallery by Capt Harling for £30

IN COLLECTION | 1943

Lt R Harling, RN

EXHIBITED | 8th Apr to 1st May 1943

"Richard Eurich, A.R.A., Wenceslaus Hollar, Durer & Rembrandt. French Paintings" - Redfern Gallery, London

Cat 3; lent by Lt R Harling, RN

AUCTIONED | 27th Jun 2017

"Modern British & Irish Art Day Sale" - Christie's, London

lot 114; price realised - £30,000

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Provenance:

  • ACQUIRED - 1939 - purchased from Tooth's Gallery by Capt Harling for £30
  • IN COLLECTION - 1943 - Lt R Harling, RN
  • AUCTIONED - 27th Jun 2017 - "Modern British & Irish Art Day Sale", Christie's, London
    lot 114; price realised - £30,000

Exhibitions:

  • 8th Apr to 1st May 1943 - "Richard Eurich, A.R.A., Wenceslaus Hollar, Durer & Rembrandt. French Paintings", Redfern Gallery, London
    Cat 3; lent by Lt R Harling, RN

Notes:

  • None recorded.

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