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This is the first book to present a comprehensive overview of the entire career of British artist Richard Eurich (1903-1992), a figurative painter of compelling power and often visionary intensity who brought rare imaginative reserves to his depiction of the world around him, as well as to his apprehension of the mysterious and unseen. Eurich was a private man, not much given to self-promotion,  and as such has not received the widespread attention he deserves. The Art of Richard Eurich locates the artist within the context of 20th-century British art, demonstrating his relevance in all quarters of the art world of the period. Eurich was draughtsman, landscape painter, teacher, War Artist, autobiographer, marine painter extraordinaire, portrait painter, figure painter, satirist, genre painter, visual poet of the beach, and occasional sculptor. His many creative talents are brought together in a compelling analysis of how these various parts refer to each other and to the man who was responsible for them.  Featuring a wide selection of his artworks, from the topographical to the visionary, from the drawn to the painted, this book unspools the narrative of Eurich's life through expertly chosen examples of his paintings and drawings and places him in relation to his fellow-artists, friends and contemporaries.

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'handsome and lavishly-illustrated ... most welcome' -- Frances Spalding * Country Life *

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Andrew Lambirth is a freelance writer, curator and critic who has written extensively on 20th-century British art for a wide range of newspapers and magazines. He was art critic of The Spectator (2002-2014), and his reviews have been collected in a paperback entitled A is a Critic. He has published more than 50 books including full-length monographs on Ken Kiff, Roger Hilton, RB Kitaj, Allen Jones, Maggi Hambling, John Hoyland, David Inshaw, Francis Davison and William Gear. He has curated exhibitions of work by Eileen Agar, Peter Blake, Maggi Hambling, Roger Hilton, Cedric Morris and Ivon Hitchens for various museums and public galleries in the UK. His previous monographs for Lund Humphries include Rose Hilton (2009) and Margaret Mellis (2010) and he contributed chapters to Edward Burra (2011), Barbara Rae (2008) and Eileen Gray (2015).

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