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

The Gentle Okapi

1943

oil on card

23.5h x 30w (cm)

Paintings for Children

Animals | Birds

Recto: signed and dated lower right: R Eurich 1943; titled bottom centre

Tags:

Animals / Birds

Paintings for Children

Sets

Themes

Subject

animal

children’s exhibition

congolese giraffe

forest giraffe

okapi

wreath

zebra giraffe

Medium

Oil

5th November 1943: “Painting small picture. The Gentle Okapi.”

- RE diary entry

See the letter below from the original owners of this and another work from Richard's 1945 Paintings for Children show at the Redfern Gallery. The boys would probably have been about 11 and 9.
It reads:
Dear Mr Eurich
I thought you might like to know that Nigel and I have been given two of your Pictures. The gentle Okapi and the Brown sails. I have got the okapi because I like animals, and the wreath round its neck and the red band round the bucket. I thought the pictures in the Gallery were so very nice. I thought as a Picture, the okapi was better than the Leopeard.
Love from
Nigel
and
Kiffer Finzi

- Letter, c1945