1951
Oil on canvas
17.8 x 20.3 cm
With Grant Ford Ltd (as of March 2024)
Works | 1950 to 1959 Figures on a Beach Nude Figures Towels | Shrouds | Figures Bending Over Umbrellas | Hats Families
Recto: Signed and dated lower right: R. Eurich '51
Verso: Redfern Gallery label dated June 13th 1952 with title "Beach Scene" and purchaser as Alec Guinness Esq.
bath chair beach children crowd dinghies dogs families figure bending over figure with towel over head figures grass horses lighthouses light house model sailing boat nude figure parasols ponies pool rowing boats sailing boats sand sand castles sand dunes steamers umbrellasBeach Scene - over 100 figures - 7x8 app - Alec Guinness - Redfern
£31-10-0
This painting was bought by the actor Alec Guinness in 1952 from Richard’s exhibition at the Redfern Gallery, Paintings on Small Panels. Richard and Alec Guinness knew each other a little because the Guinness family lived near to him and Mavis for a while.
When Richard’s father Dr Eurich retired in the late 1930s, he and Richard's mother moved down from Ilkley in Yorkshire to a house they had built for them in the New Forest. They named it Lanshawe Cottage, the same name as their house up north. When Richard’s father died in early 1945, his mother went …
This painting was bought by the actor Alec Guinness in 1952 from Richard’s exhibition at the Redfern Gallery, Paintings on Small Panels. Richard and Alec Guinness knew each other a little because the Guinness family lived near to him and Mavis for a while.
When Richard’s father Dr Eurich retired in the late 1930s, he and Richard's mother moved down from Ilkley in Yorkshire to a house they had built for them in the New Forest. They named it Lanshawe Cottage, the same name as their house up north. When Richard’s father died in early 1945, his mother went back to Yorkshire to stay with relatives. Lanshawe Cottage was sold to the Guinnesses. Richard’s older daughter Caroline remembers their son Matthew and his red hair. She used to play with him.
Alec Guinness’s wife, Merula Salaman, was an accomplished painter as well as an actress. She had studied at the Slade some years after Richard. As far as we know, the Guinnesses were neighbours until they moved to Petersfield in the mid 1950s.
We have also discovered from a recent sale that the painting was owned by American actor Edward Herrmann. With a bit of digging we discovered that the two actors had worked on several films together and had become close friends. They also performed together in a two-hander in a West End production of 'A Walk in the Woods' in 1988-89. It was the last stage play Guinness acted in.
We do not know the details of how the painting came to be passed to Herrmann.
Not to be confused with Beach Scene (1989).
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