The Gathering of the Waters - Richard Eurich (1903-1992)

Oil on board
45 x 50.1 cm

Private Collection, UK

Nude Figures Strange Pictures All Works in RA Summer Exhibitions 1937 to 1993 Works | 1970 to 1979 Figures on a Beach The Art of Richard Eurich

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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)

REP / PC

Provenance:

IN COLLECTION - 1979 - Monty Bloom, Esq
IN COLLECTION - 1994 - Private Collection, UK

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
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

Notes:

None recorded.

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References:

The Art of Richard Eurich (Andrew Lambirth, pub. 2020: Lund Humphries, 170 colour illustrations, ISBN 9781848221727) [fig 101, pg 123]
“Edge of All the Land” Southampton (1994) (Southampton City Art Gallery / Nicholas Usherwood.) [Figure 68]
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)