1943
Oil on card
23.5 x 30 cm
Unknown collection (see timeline)
More details...Recto: Signed and dated lower right: R Eurich 1943; titled bottom centre
5th November 1943: “Painting small picture. The Gentle Okapi.”
See the letter below from the original owners of this and another work from Richard's 1945 Paintings for Children show at the Redfern Gallery. The boys would probably have been about 11 and 9.
It reads:
Dear Mr Eurich
I thought you might like to know that Nigel and I have been given two of your Pictures. The gentle Okapi and the Brown sails. I have got the okapi because I like animals, and the wreath round its neck and the red band round the bucket. I thought the pictures in the Gallery were so very nice. I thought …See the letter below from the original owners of this and another work from Richard's 1945 Paintings for Children show at the Redfern Gallery. The boys would probably have been about 11 and 9.
It reads:
Dear Mr Eurich
I thought you might like to know that Nigel and I have been given two of your Pictures. The gentle Okapi and the Brown sails. I have got the okapi because I like animals, and the wreath round its neck and the red band round the bucket. I thought the pictures in the Gallery were so very nice. I thought as a Picture, the okapi was better than the Leopeard.Love from
Nigel
and
Kiffer Finzi
Letter from the original young owners
Image ©
Richard Eurich Paintings
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