The Gathering of the Waters (1970)
Photo: Southampton Art Gallery      
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The Gathering of the Waters

1970

Oil on board
45 x 50.1 cm

Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, Hampshire


Works | 1970 to 1979 RA Summer Exhibitions Strange Pictures The Art of Richard Eurich Figures on a Beach Nude Figures

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Recto: Signed and dated lower right: R Eurich. ’70

Aka: The Gathering of the Waters [Fine Art Society, and Southampton]; Gathering of the Waters [Tooth’s, and Bradford]

Other measurements: 45 x 50.1 cm [Southampton]; 45 x 49 cm [Tooth’s], 145 x 50 cm [Bradford]

blue sea figures low sun man naked nude figure sun waves without clothes women woman female

[This is] a supremely direct and arresting image, in which the plangent blue of the sea is tipped up to the picture plane to make a vertical wall. Over this wall a nude bather is swimming/scrambling to meet his naked mate on the beach below. There is nothing else except a narrow strip of hot blue sky and a throbbing sun, yet the poetry of this image is real and unconfined.

Andrew Lambirth ‘The Art of Richard Eurich'

See also Botschaft (Valentine) (1970)

Provenance

EXHIBITED | 29th Sep to 16th Oct 1970

"Richard Eurich - Recent Paintings" - Arthur Tooth & Sons, London

Cat 11; priced at £250

EXHIBITED | 1st May to 25th Jul 1971

"Summer Exhibition 1971" - Royal Academy of Arts, London

Cat 5

EXHIBITED | 30th Oct to 24th Nov 1973

"Recent Acquisitions of XXth century British Painting" - Arthur Tooth & Son, London

Cat 11

EXHIBITED | 26th Apr to 20th May 1977

"Richard Eurich RA" - The Fine Art Society, London    (toured to Fine Art Society, Edinburgh, 28 May-21 June 1977)

Cat 20, cover illustration

IN COLLECTION | 1979

Monty Bloom, Esq (noted collector and friend of L.S. Lowry)

EXHIBITED | 25th Nov 1979 to 20th Jan 1980

"Richard Eurich, RA - A Retrospective Exhibition" - Cartwright Hall Gallery, Bradford District Museums and Galleries, Bradford    (toured Glasgow, London, Southampton)

Cat 76; loaned by Monty Bloom

BY DESCENT | [unknown date]

inherited by Monty Bloom’s son Martin Bloom

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 68, illustrated; loaned by Martin Bloom

ACQUIRED | April 2025

bought by the Richard Eurich Estate

GIFTED | April 2025

Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, Hampshire

presented by the Richard Eurich Estate

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Provenance:

  • IN COLLECTION - 1979 - Monty Bloom, Esq (noted collector and friend of L.S. Lowry)
  • BY DESCENT - [unknown date] - inherited by Monty Bloom’s son Martin Bloom
  • ACQUIRED - April 2025 - bought by the Richard Eurich Estate
  • GIFTED - April 2025 - Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, Hampshire
    presented by the Richard Eurich Estate

Exhibitions:

  • 29th Sep to 16th Oct 1970 - "Richard Eurich - Recent Paintings", Arthur Tooth & Sons, London
    Cat 11; priced at £250
  • 1st May to 25th Jul 1971 - "Summer Exhibition 1971", Royal Academy of Arts, London
    Cat 5
  • 30th Oct to 24th Nov 1973 - "Recent Acquisitions of XXth century British Painting", Arthur Tooth & Son, London
    Cat 11
  • 26th Apr to 20th May 1977 - "Richard Eurich RA", The Fine Art Society, London    (toured to Fine Art Society, Edinburgh, 28 May-21 June 1977)
    Cat 20, cover illustration
  • 25th Nov 1979 to 20th Jan 1980 - "Richard Eurich, RA - A Retrospective Exhibition", Cartwright Hall Gallery, Bradford District Museums and Galleries, Bradford    (toured Glasgow, London, Southampton)
    Cat 76; loaned by Monty Bloom
  • 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 68, illustrated; loaned by Martin Bloom

Notes:

  • None recorded.

Related  

Nudes on Beach (1969)

 

Botschaft (Valentine) (1970)

Image © Royal Academy of Arts

 

Figures on a Beach (1971)

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References:

  • “Edge of All the Land” Southampton (1994) (Southampton City Art Gallery / Nicholas Usherwood.) [Figure 68]
  • The Art of Richard Eurich (Andrew Lambirth, pub. 2020: Lund Humphries, 170 colour illustrations, ISBN 9781848221727) [fig 101, pg 123]
  • Rediscovering Richard Eurich (by Peyton Skipwith, pub. Fine Art Connoisseur (Streamline, USA), October 2020, Historic Masters, pp 130-135)
  • 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)