Unusually High Tide - Richard Eurich (1903-1992)

Oil on board
39.5 x 45.5 cm

Private Collection, UK

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Recto: Signed and dated lower right: R. Eurich. '89

Aka: Unusually High Tide; An Unusually High Tide

Verso: Inscribed "UNUSUALY [sic] HIGH TIDE RICHARD EURICH R.A. 1990 [sic]", and The First Gallery label

Other measurements: 39.5 x 45.5 cm [REP]; 40.6 x 45.7 cm

crashing figure seawall waves

"The work originally showed RE's car in the foreground. Perhaps it should have been titled 'An Unexpectedly High Tide', as it records the conditions at Lepe on the day Richard and Mavis were stranded and their car flooded. Their rescue was front-page news. Both were highly amused that to the typically uncultured local and national press, they were just OAPs, not one of the most senior RAs and his wife (which would have made a better story)! He painted the car out for artistic reasons ..."

From a note in the catalogue to the exhibition RE-Discovered 2003

Paul Clarke, The First Gallery

Provenance:

IN COLLECTION - 2017 - Private Collection, UK

Exhibitions:

14th Oct to 8th Nov 1991 - "Richard Eurich: Paintings Since the War", The Fine Art Society, London
Cat 49
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 92
10th to 31st Mar 1998 - "An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Richard Eurich OBE RA", Alresford Gallery, Alresford, Hampshire
Cat 4; priced at £2800
8th to 29th Mar 2003 - "RE-Discovered, a centenary celebration show of paintings and drawings by RICHARD EURICH OBE RA (1903 - 1992)", The First Gallery, Southampton
Cat 16; priced at £4200

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 165, pg 182]