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

The Dreamer

1946

oil on panel

21h x 27.5w (cm)

Private Collection (UK)

All Works in NEAC Exhibitions 1927 to 1992

The Art of Richard Eurich

Recto: signed and dated lower left: R. Eurich 1946

Verso: Redfern Gallery label with title "The Dreamer", Purchaser - Lord Amherst, May 31st 1952, and handwritten note "d.d. Roger Senhouse with love Christmas; label City of Bradford Art Gallery, Cartwright Memorial Hall, Bradford Artists Exhibition 1951

Alternatives:

Dreamer in a Cornfield [RE diary]

21h x 28w [collector 2018]

Tags:

Animals / Birds

Bicycles / Ladders

Landscapes / Gardens

Motifs

Narrative

Rainbows

Sets

Themes

Subject

Dog

Sea

bare chested

beer bottle

border collie

bottle

church spire

cornfield

dark sky

drunk

hay making

hay stack

lying down

male

man

mat

red spotted handkerchief

rug

sheafs

sheep dog

shirtless

sleeping

wheat stacks

women woman female

Medium

Oil

Exhibited with The Dreamer (Study) at the Redfern Gallery in 1949 [Cat 6]. RE says in his diary that "Dreamer in Cornfield, larger version…. lost by Rex Nan Kivell" [owner of the Redfern], but he also records it as sold in 1951 in his sales diary, so we can perhaps assume that the study version was eventually found."

- RE diary

Bought by pilot and airline director Lord Amherst in 1952 who gave it as a Christmas present, it seems, to Roger Senhouse, publisher and friend to the Bloomsbury set.

- REP-PC

What are we to make of the figure in white in the background (see detail below)? Is it part of the dream?

- REP-PC

Gloucester Declines Two Modern Pictures “ We should get pictures that the man in the street can understand and get some pleasure out of," Ald. S. Stoddarts said at Gloucester City Council meeting yesterday. Ald. Mrs. Edwards had objected to the Museums Committee decision not to purchase two pictures‐Flowers against Yellow by Ivor Hitchens and The Dreamer by Richard Eurich‐at a total cost of £157 10s. Ald. A. G. Lea said one painting looked like an atomic bomb exploding in technicolor. The second was a harvesting scene, with the spectrum of the rainbow turned inside out, and the anatomical dimensions of the gentleman in the painting were not what they were used to in natural life. The council decided not to purchase the painting

- Birmingham Post, 30 June 1950