Air Fight over Portland - Richard Eurich (1903-1992)

Oil on canvas
76.2 x 101.9 cm

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Recto: Signed and dated lower right: R. Eurich 1940

Aka: Air Fight over Portland; Air Flight over Portland [spelling error]; Air Fight over Portland [RE sales diary]

Other measurements: 76 x 101.5 cm [Bradford]; 76.2 x 101.7 cm [IWM]

Dorset England Portland The South West IWM Imperial War Museum Royal Navy 1 Spitfire WW2 WWII World War 2 World War II aeroplanes air combat aircraft airplanes anti-aircraft barbed barbed wire battle bombers breakwater building clouds crash enemy figures gun position hills men parachutes public collection ruin sea ships soldiers vapour trails war war artist warships wartime waves white cliffs wreckage

There are two versions of this painting, the larger "Air Fight over Portland" (1940) in the Imperial War Museum and Portland Bill, 1940 (1941) in the Royal Air Force collection.

REP / PC

3 December 1940
Painted all day at Battle over Portland (finished on 15^th Jan 1941)

RE diary

Provenance:

ACQUIRED - 1940 - bought by the Ministry of Information for £78-15-0
GIFTED - 1947 - Imperial War Museum, London
transferred from the War Artists' Advisory Committee; Accession number IWM ART LD 769

Exhibitions:

1941 - "British War Artists", National Gallery, London
25th Nov 1979 to 20th Jan 1980 - "Richard Eurich, RA - A Retrospective Exhibition", Cartwright Hall Gallery, Bradford District Museums and Galleries, Bradford (toured Glasgow, London, Southampton)
Cat 25, illustrated
26th Sep 1991 to 12th Jan 1992 - "Richard Eurich - From Dunkirk to D-Day", Imperial War Museum, London, UK
Cat 10

Notes:

None recorded.

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References:

The Art of Richard Eurich (Andrew Lambirth, pub. 2020: Lund Humphries, 170 colour illustrations, ISBN 9781848221727) [fig 38, pg 55]
RICHARD EURICH, RA - A Retrospective Exhibition [catalogue to the exhibition of the same name done in association with The Fine Art Society] (by Caroline Krzesinska, pub. Bradford Art Galleries and Museums 1979) [p27]
Art UK [artuk.org]
Bridgeman Images [Art and media image library] [view image]
Illustrated London News [date unknown.]
Imperial War Museum [IWM reference page]
The Good Fight: Battle of Britain Propaganda and The Few (by G. Campion, Pub. Palgrave Macmillan; 2009th edition (20 Nov. 2008), 0230279961, 978-0230279964) [Reference page 219]
War Pictures by British Artists - War at Sea (Sir Herbert Richmond [Introduction], pub. Oxford University Press, 1942) [Plate 4]
William Rothenstein & Richard Eurich - WAR ARTISTS [Fourth in a series in the Not Just Hockney series of books about past artists from the Bradford district.] (Colin Neville, Not Just Hockney, 2021) [pg 14]
Art UK Curations 3 [Themed groups of works selected from the Art UK online catalogue by art professionals and members of the public.] [Artists and wartime places: Richard Eurich | curated by David Saywell, Head of Digital Assets, Art UK]
Art UK Curations 2 [Themed groups of works selected from the Art UK online catalogue by art professionals and members of the public.] [Artists and places: Richard Eurich in Dorset and Hampshire | curated by David Saywell, Head of Digital Assets, Art UK]
Art UK Stories [Online essays about every aspect of art. Interviews with a wide range of artists, known and unknown.] [The unexpected poetry of Richard Eurich's paintings]