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

Dancing Men

1948

oil on canvas

40.5h x 51w (cm)

Leicestershire County Council Artworks Collection

Paintings for Children

Gatherings | Crowds | Festivities

Music | Dance

Figures on a Beach

Harlequins | Pierrots | Clowns

Umbrellas | Hats

Recto: signed and dated lower left: R. Eurich ’48

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All Works in Public Collections

Figures on a Beach

Gatherings / Festivities

Harlequins / Pierrots / Clowns

Motifs

Music / Theatre

Paintings for Children

Sets

The North

Themes

Umbrellas / Hats

Yorkshire

Subject

Beach

Leicestershire County Council

accordian

clown

concertina

dance

dancing

fishing boat

group

harlequin

hats

masted ship

melodian

men

music

musical instrument

paintings for children

public collection

sand

squeeze box

sticks

sword

sword dance

Medium

Oil

Lost for many years but found in a cupboard by a teacher in a Leicestershire primary school in 2014.

- REP

Judging from the notes on the sketch below, this painting seems to have been inspired by the Boosbeck Tulips Sword dancing team, from Boosbeck in North Yorkshire, performing a Yorkshire Long Sword dance.

- REP

Provenance & Events

SOLO SHOW • 8th Mar to 2nd Apr 1949

"Richard Eurich, Walter Goetz, Frances Richards"

Redfern Gallery

Cat 16

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 1

ACQUIRED • 1951

Leicestershire County Council Artworks Collection

sold, possibly from the Bradford retrospective, possibly to Leicestershire County Council education service

For £18

References:

Reviews

"Creating a Catalogue Raisonné & Website for Richard Eurich RA NEAC OBE"; by Philippa Bambach, pub. NEAC website, October 2023

Related Works

Northumbrian Sword Dance (1973)