1976
Oil on board
16.2 x 20.3 cm
Private Collection
Works | 1970 to 1979 Bonfires | Flames | Smoke Still Life within a Scene Still Life Still life on a beach
Recto: Signed and dated lower left: R. Eurich '76
Verso: Inscribed "Candle on the Beach 1976 Richard Eurich"; Richard Eurich Retrospective label - 100 Candle on the Beach, Property of [collector's name]; Fine Art Society label dated November 1979 E3/62 Exhibited: FAS 1977 (73).
candle fishing boat flame grey sky sea stones wickThis poem was written by a friend of the family in memory of Crispin, Richard's photographer son, who was loved by all who knew him.
The picture was painted during Crispin's illness.
A steep-to pebble beach or shore
cobbled with skull-like flints
and, wedged between, a leaning stump
of candle wafts and winks.
The grey sky is in shreds, the grey
sea smudged with lumps of white.
A fishing boat thumps through these seas,
…
This poem was written by a friend of the family in memory of Crispin, Richard's photographer son, who was loved by all who knew him.
The picture was painted during Crispin's illness.
A steep-to pebble beach or shore
cobbled with skull-like flints
and, wedged between, a leaning stump
of candle wafts and winks.
The grey sky is in shreds, the grey
sea smudged with lumps of white.
A fishing boat thumps through these seas,
stemming wind and tide.
The smear of wet wind makes all grey
but for the flag of flame,
tricked yellow to the wick, about
to blow out so it seems.
The painter's son was dying from
a tumour in the brain
that was inoperable, and so
this silent scream of pain.
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