Nude Woman with Bird

RE tells several stories about the 1929 Goupil show in his diaries, but there is no mention of him meeting Christopher Wood there. We are not sure if this is RE's omission or if his first meeting with CW was at another time and place.

"Painted the year after Eurich had left the Slade (age 25), Nude Woman with Bird, 1928, belongs to a series of small paintings and highly finished drawings of the male and female figure that he completed at the time, and which formed the basis of his first one-man show at the influential Goupil Gallery in late 1929 (see The Great Viol, 1927. no.3. The Edge of all the Land, and Bedroom Interior 1928 no.4 ibid). This exhibition had come about through the influence of the celebrated patron and connoisseur Sir Edward Marsh (who had already bought several in 1928) and …

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"Painted the year after Eurich had left the Slade (age 25), Nude Woman with Bird, 1928, belongs to a series of small paintings and highly finished drawings of the male and female figure that he completed at the time, and which formed the basis of his first one-man show at the influential Goupil Gallery in late 1929 (see The Great Viol, 1927. no.3. The Edge of all the Land, and Bedroom Interior 1928 no.4 ibid). This exhibition had come about through the influence of the celebrated patron and connoisseur Sir Edward Marsh (who had already bought several in 1928) and Eric Gill - two good and critical supporters for a younger artist to have at this time. In technique, this lovely early work is close to the bold, thick brushstrokes of paintings like Self-Portrait, 1926, and the early landscape The Broken Tree, 1926, and shows something of the influence of Christopher Wood whom Eurich always greatly admired and whom he first met at the private view of his Goupil gallery exhibition."

There seems to be two dates attributed to this work. Offer Waterman quoted 1928 and Christie's 1926.