1915
Watercolour on paper
9 x 12.5 cm
Estate Collection (Private Collection)
Juvenilia Works | 1909 to 1919 Ships | Boats | Harbours | Ports Wartime Bonfires | Flames | Smoke Watercolours Richard Eurich (1903-1992) Visionary Artist
Recto: Signed and dated lower right: R.E.1915
This early painting, done during the First World War when RE was about 12 years old, was found in a scrapbook he compiled to show a selection of studies ". . . drawn before I went to the Slade School, London in 1924 - so they represent a cross section of what I was studying out of school up to the age of twenty one.".
Richard had to learn to deflect anti-German feeling at his boarding school.
"I found there was one way in which I could make my fellows forget their antagonisms. It was generally acknowledged that I could draw so I entertained the uncritical rabble with extravagant battle pictures, often of a murderous nature, and in their appreciation of these works they lost sight of my German antecedents."
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