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

The Guy

1948

oil on canvas

61h x 51w (cm)

Private Collection (UK)

Paintings for Children

Gatherings | Crowds | Festivities

Night | Dusk

Towns | Town Life | Buildings

Bonfires | Flames | Smoke

View through a Window or Door

Umbrellas | Hats

Strange Pictures

Recto: signed and dated lower left: R. Eurich. 1948.

Verso: Fine Art Society label

Tags:

Bonfires / Flames / Smoke

England

Gatherings / Festivities

Motifs

Night

Paintings for Children

Problem Pictures

Sets

The North

Themes

Towns / Town Life / Buildings

Umbrellas / Hats

View through a Window or Door

Subject

Guy Fawkes night

animal

bonfire

brick wall

bricks

brush

child

children

chimney

chimney sweep

crowd

dancing

dustbin

figures in a window

fireworks

flames

gasometer

group

hats

industrial

industry

masks

men

paintings for children

party

sinister

swing

trash can

women woman female

Medium

Oil

Provenance & Events

SOLO SHOW • 8th Mar to 2nd Apr 1949

"Richard Eurich, Walter Goetz, Frances Richards"

Redfern Gallery

Cat 11

ACQUIRED • 1949

bought by Mr W D Wilkinson from the Redfern gallery

For £90

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 34; lent by Mr W D Wilkinson

AUCTION • 14th Mar 2006

"20th Century British Art"

Sotheby’s

lot 42, illustrated

Sold for £12,000

EXHIBITION • 20th Sep to 20th Oct 2006

"The Twentieth Century"

The Fine Art Society

Cat 34

IN COLLECTION • 2015

Private Collection (UK)

References:

Other

"Bridgeman Images"; [view image]

Related Works

Men of Straw (1957)

The Guy (1958)

Mischief Night (1975)

The Last of the Guy (1983)