11th Feb, 2026 11:00
The Estate of John Russell Taylor: Author, Critic, Collector
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⊕ RICHARD EURICH RA (BRITISH 1903-1992)
CORNISH LANDSCAPE
signed and dated R.EURICH.1936 lower left; oil on canvas; 39.5 x 50cm; 15 1/2 x 19 3/4in (52.5 x 63cm; 20 3/4 x 24 3/4in framed)
Provenance: Redfern Gallery, London; Goupil Gallery, London (purchased from the above by Cicely Marchant in 1937); Abbott & Holder, London (by 1969)
Exhibited
London, Goupil Gallery, Goupil Gallery Salon, 1937, no. 61; Bradford, Cartwright Hall, Art Galleries and Museums; Glasgow & London, The Fine Art Society & Southampton, City Art Gallery, Richard Eurich Retrospective Exhibition, 1980, no. 18
Born in Bradford, the son of the German-Jewish bacteriologist Friedrich Wilhelm Eurich, in 1922 Richard Eurich studied at Bradford School of Art followed by the Slade in London in 1926 under Henry Tonks. Introduced to Cicely Marchant at the Goupil Gallery by the influential political administrator, collector and patron Edward Marsh, Eurich had his first one-man exhibition at Goupil in 1929, followed by his first one-man show at the Redfern Gallery in 1933, after which Redfern offered him a contract to supply the gallery with paintings.
Sold for £24,000
CORNISH LANDSCAPE
signed and dated R.EURICH.1936 lower left; oil on canvas; 39.5 x 50cm; 15 1/2 x 19 3/4in (52.5 x 63cm; 20 3/4 x 24 3/4in framed)
Provenance: Redfern Gallery, London; Goupil Gallery, London (purchased from the above by Cicely Marchant in 1937); Abbott & Holder, London (by 1969)
Exhibited
London, Goupil Gallery, Goupil Gallery Salon, 1937, no. 61; Bradford, Cartwright Hall, Art Galleries and Museums; Glasgow & London, The Fine Art Society & Southampton, City Art Gallery, Richard Eurich Retrospective Exhibition, 1980, no. 18
Born in Bradford, the son of the German-Jewish bacteriologist Friedrich Wilhelm Eurich, in 1922 Richard Eurich studied at Bradford School of Art followed by the Slade in London in 1926 under Henry Tonks. Introduced to Cicely Marchant at the Goupil Gallery by the influential political administrator, collector and patron Edward Marsh, Eurich had his first one-man exhibition at Goupil in 1929, followed by his first one-man show at the Redfern Gallery in 1933, after which Redfern offered him a contract to supply the gallery with paintings.
Auction: The Estate of John Russell Taylor: Author, Critic, Collector, 11th Feb, 2026
Auction Location: London, UK
John Russell Taylor was a compulsive collector. When he died at the age of ninety, his two bedroom flat on the corner of Brook Green was floor to ceiling with books and pictures that he had collected over the last seventy years. A precocious talent he was awarded a scholarship to read English at Cambridge aged 16 and graduated with a starred First Class degree. Film, theatre and art critic for The Times for more than four decades, he wrote thousands of articles and reviews for the newspaper. He also wrote over sixty books – critical studies, biographies, and monographs. He was appointed professor of Film at the University of Southern California during the 1970s, when he was asked by Alfred Hitchcock to write his biography. Hitch remains the standard text on the film director. John's interests ranged across all aspects of the arts from Art Nouveau book illustration to Vorticism, fan paintings, poetry and stage design. Struck by the visual rather than the value of a work of art, the sale of his picture collection gives a flavour of the full gamut of his encyclopaedic mind, a man remembered for his phenomenal range of reference, his extraordinary talent for writing and his warm and generous character.
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PUBLIC EXHIBITION
Friday 6th February: 10am - 5pm
Sunday 8th February: 12pm - 4pm
Monday 9th February: 10am - 8pm (Drinks: 5pm - 8pm)
Tuesday 10th February: 10am - 5pm
