Art work by Richard Eurich D.Litt. RA OBE (1903-1992) Catalogue Raisonnée: https://richardeurich.co.uk/. Contact: Philippa Bambach 07890 390633 — © 2006 Christie's Images Limited

The Girls at a Spinet

1930

oil on canvas

44.4h x 55.8w (cm)

Music | Dance

Families

Interiors

Recto: signed and dated lower left on the piano: Richard Eurich. Feb: 1930

Verso: signed and inscribed

Alternatives:

The Girls at the Spinet [Southampton]

Girls at a Spinet [Christie’s]

The New Tune [RE note on back of print in RE archive]

43h x 53w [Sotheby's, Chester]

Tags:

Curtains / Necklaces

Interiors

Motifs

Music / Theatre

Themes

Subject

apron

blonde

brown hair

curtain

earings

female

girl

green dress

keyboard

musical score

pictures on wall

playing

rabbits

red dress

sheet music

Medium

Oil

Provenance & Events

EXHIBITION • October 1931

"Yorkshire Group of Artists"

Cartwright Hall

shown as "The New Tune"

AUCTION • 14th Jul 1988

"[title unknown]"

Sotheby’s

lot 3250, illustrated; sold as "The New Tune"

IN COLLECTION • 1994

private collection (USA)

SOLO SHOW • 28th Jan to 13th Mar 1994

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

Southampton City Art Gallery

Cat 14

AUCTION • 7th Dec 2006

"20th Century British Art & Dreaming Spires; Watercolours of Oxford and Cambridge Colleges"

Christie's, South Kensington

lot 191, illustrated pg. 81

Sold for £7,200

Related Works

The Spinet (1929)

'The Girls at the Spinet' looks as if it might be a reworking of this drawing done a year earlier and shown in the his first solo show at the Goupil Gallery in 1929. 'The Spinet' (1929)