Art work by Richard Eurich D.Litt. RA OBE (1903-1992) Catalogue Raisonnée: https://richardeurich.co.uk/. Contact: Philippa Bambach 07890 390633 — © Richard Eurich Paintings

Antwerp

1939

oil on canvas

101.6h x 127w (cm)

Tate Britain

Ships | Boats | Harbours | Ports

Towns | Town Life | Buildings

Birds Eye View

Bonfires | Flames | Smoke

Ladders

Richard Eurich (1903-1992) Visionary Artist

RA Summer Exhibitions

Recto: signed and dated lower left: R. Eurich 1939

Alternatives:

40h x 50w [RE diaries]

Tags:

All Works in Public Collections

Antwerp

Belgium

Bicycles / Ladders

Birds Eye View

Bonfires / Flames / Smoke

Motifs

Sets

Ships / Boats / Harbours

Themes

Towns / Town Life / Buildings

Subject

Figures

Schelde

Steen

Tate

\Trees

apartments

architecture

barges

boat

building

castle

cathedral

churches

cities

city

clock

clock tower

clothes

craft

dutch

ferry

flats

flower pots

harbour

hats

houseboat

jetty

ladder

masts

men

modern

pleasure

public collection

rigging

river

river bank

rowing

rowing boat

sailing

sailing barge

sails

skyscraper

spires

steam tug

steamship

tall ship

three master

topographical view

towers

transport

urban landscape

washing

water

weather

windy

women woman female

working

Medium

Oil

14 September 1939, just over a week after war was declared

We motored up to London with ‘Antwerp’ and ‘Ouse at York’ to the Redfern Gallery. Nan Kivell didn’t think the former suitable for the Tate Gallery. So wants me to do another! and have my show in November as "no one else is having one” (had been scheduled for December)

As far as we can tell "another" Antwerp was never painted and it is the one mentioned that the Tate bought for their collection.

- RE diary

Provenance & Events

SOLO SHOW • 2nd to 25th Nov 1939

"Richard Eurich"

Redfern Gallery

Cat 7

Priced at GNS150 , Priced at £150

ACQUIRED • 1940

Tate Britain

Purchased for from the artist by the President and Council of the Royal Academy under the terms of the Chantrey Bequest for the Tate Gallery; accession number N05344

For GNS100

EXHIBITION • 1940 to 1942

"British Painting Today, Contemporary Art Society"

provincial tour

EXHIBITION • 29th Apr to 7th Aug 1944

"Summer Exhibition 1944"

Royal Academy of Arts

Cat 17

SOLO SHOW • 1st Jun to 26th Aug 1951

"RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION OF OIL PAINTINGS by RICHARD EURICH, A.R.A."

City of Bradford Art Gallery, Cartwright Hall

Cat 19; lent by The Trustees of the Tate Gallery

References:

Books

"Richard Eurich (1903-1992) Visionary Artist"; Edward Chaney and Christine Clearkin (contributions by James Hyman, David McCann and Peyton Skipwith), pub. 2003: Paul Holberton Publishing, ISBN 1903470110 [Figure 16 in catalogue, not exhibited]
"The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture"; Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Oldbourne Press, 1964

Collections

"Tate collection"; [Tate.org.uk]

Related Works

Queen of the Sea, 1911 (1954)

York Festival Triptych (1956)

Night Raid on Portsmouth Docks, 1941 (1942)

The Mariner's Return (1953)