Art work by Richard Eurich D.Litt. RA OBE (1903-1992) Catalogue Raisonnée: https://richardeurich.co.uk/. Contact: Philippa Bambach 07890 390633 — Photo: courtesy Christie's 2017 Christie's Images Limited

The Galilee

1938

oil on canvas

40.6h x 61w (cm)

Ships | Boats | Harbours | Ports

Bonfires | Flames | Smoke

Recto: signed and dated lower left: R. Eurich. '38.

Verso: inscribed and numbered '"Galilee" by Richard Eurich/15' (on the stretcher)

Alternatives:

Galillee [RE sales diary]

40h x 50w []

Tags:

Bonfires / Flames / Smoke

England

Motifs

Ships / Boats / Harbours

The North

Themes

Yorkshire

Subject

Sea

WY. 41.

WY41

beached boats

breakwater

fishing boat

footprints

grey cloudy sky

grey day

groynes

house

industry

sandy beach

steps

windmill

Medium

Oil

In the 1930s Eurich was painting a lot in the West Country. However the 'WY' in the registration refers to Whitby rather than Weymouth and this work is likely a result of a trip to Yorkshire, or alternatively he may have worked from an old drawing that he happened on in his sketchbook. We are very grateful to Christine Clearkin for her assistance in preparing this catalogue entry and for Philippa Bambach for the catalogue note.

- Christie's auction notes

I think that all painters will agree that the cobles are most difficult to draw.

- RE Autobiography

House and Garden Magazine
2nd May 1980
Dear Richard Eurich
Having found so much pleasure in your show at the Fine Art Society (and refreshed again by Frank Davis's notes in this week's Country Life) I am prompted to write to you to thank you for the years of pleasure I have derived from two of your paintings I bought as a young man and which have delighted me ever since.
I bought my first Eurich painting - of a grey schooner lying alongside the quay at Poole harbour - from the Mayor Gallery (could it have been?) forty years ago. A lovely picture which I hope you recall. Then, a year or so later, I bought a lovely painting of a Yorkshire coble with the Whitby markings drawn up on the beach (from the Redfern I seem to recall). They have been the joy of my eyeballs. I even took the first one to sea with me during the war.
I have since bought other paintings you have done, but bless the day I bought that particular pair. More than anything else in one's life I think the paintings one buys in one's youth keep fresh those days throughout life.
As a peacetime and wartime sailor I have long collected paintings of the sea - Wadsworth, Ravilious and so on - but none has given me more pleasure than I have enjoyed from that pair. I thought the artist ought to know.
Robert Harling
EDITOR

- Letter to Richard from graphic designer, typographer, novelist and editor of House and Garden magazine Robert Harling (1910-2006)