Coast Scene with Rainbow - Richard Eurich (1903-1992)

Oil on canvas
122.5 x 183.5 cm

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Recto: Signed and dated lower right: R. Eurich. 1952-3

Aka: Coast Scene with Rainbow; Coast Scene with a Rainbow [Art UK]

Government Art Collection Pierrot Verity arches beach bird bouys boys breakers chains children cliffs columm crane cranes crowd dark clouds dark grey sky dinghy dog electricity pylon excitement fear figures fishing boat fishing nets frightened funnel harbour harbour entrance harbour wall jetty ladder large waves life buoy lighthouses look-out lookout man aloft mast men red cliffs rope running sailing ship sailing yacht sails scaffolding sea seagull seawall smoke stairs steamship steps swimming swimming suits trunks villages washing line women woman female

RE diary, 1 May 1953

I had so hoped to see you at the banquet to tell you how pleased I was to get your letter. I am delighted to have joined you all and count myself v. lucky. I just love your big picture in Room X and would like to hear how you painted it. Hope we may meet soon. as ever Anthony.

Card sent to Richard by the portrait painter Anthony Devas, on seeing 'Coast Scene with Rainbow' at the 1953 RA Summer Exhibition.

Inspired by Whitby harbour and its lighthouses. See more Whitby references in the Related works below.

REP / PC

Provenance:

ACQUIRED - 1953 - Government Art Collection
purchased from The Redfern Gallery by Sir David Eccles, Minister of Works; GAC no. 2518

Exhibitions:

2nd May to 16th Aug 1953 - "Summer Exhibition 1953", Royal Academy of Arts, London
Cat 550
Jun to July 1953 - "Coronation Exhibition : contemporary British paintings, 1953", The Redfern Gallery, London
Cat 56
28th Jan to 13th Mar 1994 - "The Edge of all the Land: Richard Eurich 1903-1992", Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton (toured to Manchester, Bradford, Ipswich)
Cat 50, illustrated
20th Mar to 29th May 2004 - "Sea Change - Paintings by Richard Eurich in War and Peace", St. Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington
9th Mar to 10th Jun 2012 - "12 from no. 10", Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

Notes:

[unknown date] - NOTE
hung in Lancaster House, London

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References:

“Edge of All the Land” Southampton (1994) (Southampton City Art Gallery / Nicholas Usherwood.) [Figure 50]
Art UK [artuk.org]
The Art of Richard Eurich (Andrew Lambirth, pub. 2020: Lund Humphries, 170 colour illustrations, ISBN 9781848221727) [fig 64, pg 85]
EURICH, Richard: ‘My Art’ (Colin Neville, pub. Not Just Hockney website) [illustrated]
Government Art Collection, UK [link]