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

Self Portrait with Pipe

1938

oil on panel

27h x 20.6w (cm)

Cartwright Hall Art Gallery

Portraits

Self Portraits

The Art of Richard Eurich

Recto: signed and dated upper right: R. EURICH 1938

Verso: inscribed on panel 'Self Portrait Richard Eurich No 9'; Redfern Gallery purchase label, dated May 1942, with purchaser recorded as J.B. Priestley Esq.; Bradford Art Galleries and Museums label from the Richard Eurich Retrospective exhibition with title as 'Self Portrait with a Pipe'

Alternatives:

Self Portrait with a Pipe [Bradford]

Portrait of the Artist [Redfern 1938]

26h x 21w [REP]

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Themes

portraits

Subject

Bradford Art Gallery

Bradford Museums and Galleries

Cartwright Hall Art Gallery

Pipe

Portrait

direct gaze

glasses

man

self-portrait

smoking

Medium

Oil

Richard did very few self portraits so we are going to assume that the 'Self Portrait with Pipe' (1938) [Redfern 1942] is the same work as 'Portrait of the Artist' (1938) [Redfern 1938]. It seems unlikely that he did two that year, but there is some chance this merging of entries is incorrect.

- REP / PC

There is a record from a Cartwright Hall Gallery, Bradford catalogue that lists "Self Portrait with a Pipe" as Cat 9 in a 1942 Redfern Gallery show, from which JB Priestly probably bought the painting. We have no hard record of this show, only of the Redfern Summer Show in that year. The self portrait is not listed in the Summer Show catalogue. We are going to assume for now that there must have been another exhibition at the Redfern earlier in 1942 which showed some of Richard's paintings.

- REP-PC

Provenance & Events

SOLO SHOW • 5th to 28th May 1938

"Recent Paintings by Richard Eurich"

Redfern Gallery

Cat 17; ; as 'Portrait of the Artist' (attribution not confirmed)

Priced at GNS10

EXHIBITION • 1942

"exhibition title unknown]"

Redfern Gallery

Cat 9; details of this exhibition need confirmation

ACQUIRED • 1942

purchased from the Redfern Gallery by JB Priestley

For £10

GIFTED • 1943

Cartwright Hall Art Gallery

presented by JB Priestley

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 8

EXHIBITION • 1973

"[exhibition title unknown]"

Harrogate Art Gallery

SOLO SHOW • 25th Nov 1979 to 20th Jan 1980

"Richard Eurich, RA - A Retrospective Exhibition"

Cartwright Hall Gallery, Bradford District Museums and Galleries

Cat 23, illustrated

References:

Reviews

"Eurich, Richard: Artists"; by Colin Neville, pub. Not Just Hockney website [illustrated]
"Magnetic pull of the Sea"; Davis, Frank, Country Life, 1 May 1980, Vol 167, No 4321
"Rediscovering Richard Eurich"; by Peyton Skipwith, pub. Fine Art Connoisseur (Streamline, USA), October 2020, Historic Masters, pp 130-135

Books

"William Rothenstein & Richard Eurich - WAR ARTISTS"; Colin Neville, Not Just Hockney, 2021 [pg 10]
"The Art of Richard Eurich"; Andrew Lambirth, pub. 2020: Lund Humphries, 170 colour illustrations, ISBN 9781848221727 [fig 29, pg 44]

Other

"Bridgeman Images"; [view imagek]
"Art UK Curations 2"; [Artwork a day -Self Portraits (Bradford Museums & Galleries) | curated by Bradford Museums]
"Art UK Curations 1"; [Back to School: Slade School artists | curated by David Saywell, Head of Digital Assets, Art UK]