1980-81
Oil on board
51.2 x 86.2 cm
Unknown collection (see timeline)
Works | 1980 to 1989 Gatherings | Crowds | Festivities Narrative Birds Eye View Weather | Storm | Wind | Rain | Snow | Mist | Fog Seascapes | Coastal Scenes
Recto: Signed and dated lower right: R. EURICH '80-1
Aka: Break Through, Chesil Beach; Breakthrough, Chesil Beach
Verso: Inscribed: ‘BREAK THROUGH/CHESIL BEACH/RICHARD EURICH R.A./1980-1’; Ash Barn label dated 9 Dec 81 with title Break Through at Chesil Beach and Purchaser as Mr,.Edward and Mrs. Margaret Butcher.
Other measurements: 51.2 x 86.2 cm [Christie's]
Chesil Beach Dorset England The South West Weymouth animals bicycles bikes boats breakers building 2 cars cottage dinghys disaster dogs flood flooding gulls large waves lorry lorry lorries trucks road seabirds single spectators spray sun sun through clouds telephone post vehicles water windyRichard painted three versions depicting the sea breach of Chesil Beach in 1979: Breakthrough, Chesil Beach Portland (1978-79), Break Through, Chesil Beach (1980-81) and Breakthrough, Chesil Beach (1981). Stranded Boat (1981) probably records the breakthrough too.
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