The Girls at a Spinet (1930)
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The Girls at a Spinet

1930

Oil on canvas
44.4 x 55.8 cm

Unknown collection (see timeline)


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Recto: Signed and dated lower left on the piano: Richard Eurich. Feb: 1930

Aka: The Girls at the Spinet [Southampton] ; Girls at a Spinet [Christie’s]; The New Tune [RE note on back of print in RE archive]

Verso: Signed and inscribed

Other measurements: 44.4 x 55.8cm; 43 x 53 cm [Sotheby's, Chester]

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Provenance

EXHIBITED | October 1931

"Yorkshire Group of Artists" - Cartwright Hall, Bradford

shown as "The New Tune"

AUCTIONED | 14th Jul 1988

"[title unknown]" - Sotheby’s, Chester

lot 3250, illustrated; sold as "The New Tune"

IN COLLECTION | 1994

private collection (USA)

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 14

NOTE | January 1996

with The Fine Art Society

AUCTIONED | 7th Dec 2006

"20th Century British Art & Dreaming Spires; Watercolours of Oxford and Cambridge Colleges" - Christie's, South Kensington, London

lot 191, illustrated pg. 81; price realised £7200

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Provenance:

  • AUCTIONED - 14th Jul 1988 - "[title unknown]", Sotheby’s, Chester
    lot 3250, illustrated; sold as "The New Tune"
  • IN COLLECTION - 1994 - private collection (USA)
  • AUCTIONED - 7th Dec 2006 - "20th Century British Art & Dreaming Spires; Watercolours of Oxford and Cambridge Colleges", Christie's, South Kensington, London
    lot 191, illustrated pg. 81; price realised £7200

Exhibitions:

  • October 1931 - "Yorkshire Group of Artists", Cartwright Hall, Bradford
    shown as "The New Tune"
  • 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 14

Notes:

  • January 1996 - NOTE
    with The Fine Art Society

Related  

'The Girls at the Spinet' looks as if it might be a reworking of this drawing done a year earlier and shown in the his first solo show at the Goupil Gallery in 1929. 'The Spinet' (1929)

The Spinet (1929)
'The Girls at the Spinet' looks as if it might be a reworking of this drawing done a year earlier and shown in the his first solo show at the Goupil Gallery in 1929. 'The Spinet' (1929)
Image © Richard Eurich Paintings

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