1981-85
Oil on board
22 x 50 cm
Private Collection, UK
More details...Recto: Signed and dated lower left: Richard Eurich 81-5
Other measurements: 22 x 50 cm [REP]; 32.5 x 61 cm [FAS?]
England Hampshire Lepe Beach The Solent The South Isle of Wight animals asleep buckets dog groynes island low tide man sailing boats sand spit seaweed shingle spades spit sun glasses windbreak women woman femaleThis is quite a funny picture as well as a beautiful one. The windbreak appears in earlier works. The question is whether it was added later to the painting to liven up the placidity of the composition. Dad dates this picture as extended over some years and this is an obvious conclusion one might jump to.
A visitor was browsing through sketches on this site and found the reference sketch for this work. See below. It includes the windbreak, showing it was not an afterthought at all. Well spotted, thank you!
When we added the sketch to this record we discovered it was already associated with another painting - The Black Dog - also done in 1985! In this picture the windbreak has been left out but the figures and setting are almost the same.
Sketch_02-12 Bait Diggers Dog (31st Aug 1980)
The reference sketch for this painting.
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Richard Eurich Paintings
The Black Dog (1985)
This is another work done in 1985 that references the same sketch.
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Bonhams
Windbreak (1988)
Windbreaks appear in a number of other RE beach scenes.
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Richard Eurich Paintings
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