Works The Burning Tree, Studley Royal

The Burning Tree, Studley Royal

1977

oil on board

30.5h x 45.7w (cm)

Recto: signed and dated lower right: R.Eurich ’77

Verso: signed, inscribed and dated


Tags:
Animals / Birds
Bonfires / Flames / Smoke
England
Landscapes / Gardens
Motifs
Problem Pictures
Studley Royal Park
The North
Themes
Yorkshire

Subject
\Trees
animals
antlers
dead wood
deer
field
fire
flames
grazing
herd
hill
smoke
woods woodland

Medium
Oil

An entirely imaginative and mysterious work, its central motif of flames constantly reappears in one guise or another throughout Eurich's career - the Fawley Refinery flame. mischief nights, bonfires and burning bushes to name a few of them. Here it takes on the character of a daytime hallucination of a kind which Eurich, according to his own account, used to experience occasionally as a child though never in this particular form.

- Nicholas Usherwood from ‘The Edge of All the Land’ 1994

Provenance & Events

SOLO SHOW • 28th Jan to 13th Mar 1994

"The Edge of all the Land: Richard Eurich 1903-1992"

Southampton City Art Gallery

Cat 74, illustrated

AUCTION • 20th Jun 1996

"Modern British Art"

Christie's

lot 103, illustrated

References:

Catalogues

  • "Edge of All the Land” Southampton (1994)"; Southampton City Art Gallery / Nicholas Usherwood. [Figure 74]

Reviews

  • "The Sea, the sea"; review by Jonathan Meades of the Edge of All the Land exhibition (1994) republished in a book of his selected writings - Pedro and Ricky Come Again, pub. Unbound: 18 March 2021, ISBN-10 : 1783529504; ISBN-13 : 978-1783529506
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